{"product_id":"9781479891320","title":"Contraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses.\u003c\/strong\u003e Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo-Provera was tested on women since the mid-1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA-approved in 1992, but never FDA-approved as chemical castration for male sex offenders.\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eContraceptive Risk \u003c\/em\u003eis William Green's landmark study of Depo-Provera. Based on a fascinating combination of archival materials and interviews, the book is framed as three interconnected stories told by Judith Weisz, who chaired the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera, a scientific court; by Anne MacMurdo who brought a products liability suit against Upjohn, the drug's manufacturer, for the deleterious side effects she suffered from the drug's use; and by Roger Gauntlett, an Upjohn heir who, when he was convicted of sexual assault, refused to take a dose of his family's own medicine as a probation condition. Together these three stories of Depo-Provera's convoluted fifty year odyssey call for a paradigm shift in pharmaceutical drug development.\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContraceptive Risk\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoroughly researched and engrossing approach to the scientific, political and institutional forces involved in health law and policy, as well as the multifaceted politics of measuring risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131040350448,"sku":"9781479891320","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479891320_p0.jpg?v=1763618857","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479891320","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}