Ebook {Epub PDF} Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America by Andrea Tone

In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A 4/5(2). In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A down-and-out sausage-casing worker by day who turned surplus animal intestines. From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States/5.  · Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. By Andrea Tone. (New York: Hill Wang, xviii, pp. $, ISBN 0- X.), Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September , Pages –, www.doorway.ru by:

Andrea Tone, Ph.D. holds the Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University. (Basic Books, ), Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, with Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (New York University Press, ), and Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, which was named one of the. a history of contraceptives in america by Andrea Tone ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 7, An informative, colorful history that depicts the clash of lawyers, businessmen, doctors, and clergy over the development of artificial birth control. Or so we often believe about the history of birth control in America. Bu. DEVICES AND DESIRES: A History of Contraceptives in America Andrea Tone, Author. Hill Wang $30 (p) ISBN

Image by Owen Egan. Professor of History Associate appointment, Transcultural Psychiatry Divison, Department of Psychiatry | www.doorway.ru@www.doorway.ru | Peel, room A historian by training, Andrea Tone’s scholarship on medicine reflects her commitment to interdisciplinary and public history. Working with archives, museums, and professional societies, she has strived to make. Scholars of birth control typically frame this history as one of physicians, lawyers, and political activists. But in Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to produce, buy, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change."--BOOK JACKET. In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A.