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- Title
THE MALE PILL: a biography of a technology in the making.
- Authors
Waites, Geoffrey M.H.
- Abstract
Explores the Nelly Oudshoorn's book "The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making". Social and cultural revolutions needed to turn what a social scientist calls the established sociotechnical networks away from their exclusive focus on women onto men; Formidable opposition faced by advocates for the development of male contraceptive drugs; Difficulties of recruiting men to participate in trials that risked pregnancy in their partners.
- Subjects
MALE contraceptives; CONTRACEPTIVE drugs; CLINICAL trials; MEDICAL research; CLINICAL medicine; SOCIAL scientists
- Publication
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 2004, Vol 47, Issue 4, p617
- ISSN
0031-5982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pbm.2004.0075