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By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. 183 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. $25.95. ISBN 0-8018-5876-3.

The subtitle calls this book "a social history of oral contraceptives, 1950–1970," but since women could only get "on the Pill" beginning in 1961, it really describes use of the Pill only during a nine-year period ending in 1970. But which Pill?

As a chemist with a long interest in oral steroid contraceptives, I found this book useful. Whether readers of the Journal, notably medical practitioners, will find it so is an open question. For all practical purposes, Watkins considers the Pill to be synonymous with norethynodrel (Enovid), which was introduced as a contraceptive agent in 1961 by the G.D. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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