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  • Dr. Nilgün Birgören
    Dr. Nilgün Birgören    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    The pill
    Dear friends,
    Of the momentous inventions of the 20th century - TV, the microchip, the Internet, to name a few - none affects us so intimately as the birth control pill, which was approved in the US by Food & Drug Administration 50 years ago, on May 9, 1960.
    It was a medical breakthrough many years in the making, the most convenient and reliable form of birth control ever invtented - but it quickly became much more.
    Arriving at a moment of social and political upheaval, the Pill became a handy proxy for wider trends: the rejection of tradition, the challenge to institutions, the redefinitions of women's roles.
    Over the years, battles erupted over the Pill's safety, morality and effects: 'the Pill is a miraculous tablet that contains as little as one thirty-thousandth of an ounce of chemical,' the story began. 'It is little more trouble to take on schedule than a daily vitamin'.
    In 2010 the importance of women's health is more pressing than ever: hundrends of thousands of women die in pregnancy and childbirth each year. Countries that educate and empower women tend to be less violent and unstable and more likely to develop socially and economically.
    The Pill has changed the world by changing lives one at a time, giving women greater control over how those lives unfold and the new life they create.
    You may wish to take a look at 'Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill: A Brief HIstory of Birth Control' by Nancy Gibbs - available exclusively at Amazon's Kindle Store http://www.amazon.com/kindlestore and can be read on the Kindle and - with the Kindle reading app - on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, plus Blackberry, PC and Mac.
    You may get your copy by searching "the Pill on Kindle" in Kindle Store or at http://www.time.com/pillonkindle
    It's a rich and thoughtful social history of the past half-century told through a single innovation that changed millions of lives.
    Regards,
    Nilgun
    • 02 May 2010, 5:43 pm