The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution - Tapa blanda

[Eig] brings a lively, jocular approach to the story, casting an unlikely four-part ensemble comedy starring Sanger; the iconoclastic lead scientist, Gregory Goodwin Pincus; the Roman Catholic physician John Rock; and the supplier of cash behind it all, Katharine McCormick.--Irin Carmon

A tale of scientific progress and social change as engaging and gripping as any suspense novel.--Molly Langmuir

The pill is utterly ordinary today. The story of how we got here is anything but.--Hannah Levintova

Who knew that the history of oral contraceptives could rival a good procedural drama, with a scrappy group of believers racing against time?--Meredith Counts

An impassioned cultural history.--Laura Pearson

Eig's nimbly paced cultural history shows that the pill's genesis was anything but simple.

Suspense-filled and beautifully written...an irresistible tale.--Ken Burns

Fascinating... Weaving medical, corporate, and political history with rich biographical detail, Eig turns the history of the pill into a scientific suspense story full of profoundly human characters. The result is cultural history at its finest.--Alan W. Petrucelli

A fascinating look into the evolution of medical practices, funding and ethics [and] an intricate portrait of how completely women's reproductive lives are woven into our culture in disturbing and contradictory ways.--Ashley Nelson

Masterful... when legislatures and courts threaten to negate the miracles of science and human progress so dazzlingly portrayed here, Eig's book is essential reading.--Kate Manning

Documents the pivotal contributions of a feminist birth-control campaigner, a wealthy schizophrenic's wife, a disgraced Harvard scientist and a boundary-breaking Catholic doctor in the development of the birth-control pill. 40,000 first printing.