Birth Control and Controlling Birth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-1

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2. Reproductive Technologies: The Birth of a Women-Centered Analysis

   1. Reproductive Technologies The Birth of a Women-Centered Analysis

      • Helen D. Holmes

      Pages 3-20

3. Ethics of Contraceptive Development and Deployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Introduction

      • Michael Gross

      Pages 23-26

   3. Historical Styles of Contraceptive Advocacy

      • Joyce Avrech Berkman

      Pages 27-36

   4. Ethical Problems in Government-Funded Contraceptive Research

      • Belita Cowan

      Pages 37-46

   5. Value Conflicts in Biomedical Research into Future Contraceptives

      • Carol C. Korenbrot

      Pages 47-53

   6. Status of Contraceptive Technology Development

      • Linda E. Atkinson, Jacki Ans

      Pages 55-59

   7. Women-Controlled Research

      • Laura Punnett

      Pages 61-69

   8. Woman-Controlled Birth Control A Feminist Analysis of Natural Birth Control

      • Women’s Community Health Center

      Pages 71-78

   9. Reponse

      • Rosa Cuéllar

      Pages 79-79

   10. Response

       • Kristin Luker

       Pages 81-83

   11. Response

       • Judy Norsigian

       Pages 85-87

   12. Contraceptives Discussion

       • Margaret A. Kohn, Michael Gross

       Pages 89-94

4. Depo-Provera and Sterilization Abuse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Depo-Provera and Sterilization Abuse Overview

      • Marie M. Cassidy

      Pages 97-99

   3. Depo-Provera Some Ethical Questions About a Controversial Contraceptive

      • Carol Levine

      Pages 101-105

   4. The Depo-Provera Weapon

      • Gena Corea

      Pages 107-116

   5. Response

      • Helen Barnes

      Pages 117-119

   6. Sterilization Abuse and Hispanic Women

      • Sandra Serrano Sewell

      Pages 121-123

Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss Itthem ": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by of women is neither sought nor listened to. The men. So often the input and perspectives that women bring to the privileged insights consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology: Analysis by W omen" (EIR TAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop, 90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse occupations and personal histories, different races and classes, varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.

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