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LEADER: 03550cam 2200517Mi 4500
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100 1 $aEig, Jonathan,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe birth of the pill :$bhow four pioneers reinvented sex and launched a revolution /$cJonathan Eig.
264 1 $aLondon :$bMacmillan,$c2014.
300 $ax, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 365-367) and index.
520 $aDocuments 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.
505 0 $aA winter night -- A short history of sex -- Spontaneous ovulations -- A go-to-hell look -- Lover and fighter -- Rabbit tests -- "I'm a sexologist" -- The socialite and the sex maniac -- A shotgun question -- Rock's rebound -- What makes a rooster crow? -- A test in disguise -- Cabeza de negro -- The road to Shrewsbury -- "Weary & depressed" -- The trouble with women -- A San Juan weekend -- The women of the asylum -- John Rock's hard place -- As easy as aspirin -- A deadline to meet -- "The miracle tablet maybe" -- Hope to the hopeless -- Trials -- "Papa Pincus's pink pills for planned parenthood" -- Jack Searle's big bet -- The birth of the pill -- "Believed to have magical powers" -- The double effect -- La señora de las pastillas -- An unlikely pitch man -- "A whole new bag of beans" -- The climax -- Epilogue.
600 10 $aRock, John,$d1890-1984.
600 10 $aMcCormick, Katharine Dexter,$d1875-1967.
600 10 $aPincus, Gregory,$d1903-1967.
600 10 $aSanger, Margaret,$d1879-1966.
650 0 $aOral contraceptives$xHistory.
650 2 $aContraception$xhistory.
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600 17 $aSanger, Margaret,$d1879-1966.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00006408
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655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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