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The Pill

Chronicles little known chapters in the history of the birth control pill. Examines how far the pharmaceutical industry was willing to risk women's health. Interviews women from Puerto Rico who became unsuspecting test subjects. Provides insights from women health activists who questioned the high-dose version's safety, and testimony from scientists who developed the pill.

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  • "As it happened: The Pill"

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  • "Chronicles little known chapters in the history of the birth control pill. Examines how far the pharmaceutical industry was willing to risk women's health. Interviews women from Puerto Rico who became unsuspecting test subjects. Provides insights from women health activists who questioned the high-dose version's safety, and testimony from scientists who developed the pill."@en
  • "Chronicles little known chapters in the history of the birth control pill. Examines how far the pharmaceutical industry was willing to risk women's health. Interviews women from Puerto Rico who became unsuspecting test subjects. Provides insights from women health activists who questioned the high-dose version's safety, and testimony from scientists who developed the pill."
  • "Chronicles little-known chapters in the history of the birth control pill and examines how much the pharmaceutical industry was willing to risk women's health. Puerto Rican women who became underinformed test subjects are interviewed, as are Gloria Steinem, journalist Barbara Seaman, women's health activist Alice Wolfson, doctors who helped develop the pill, a medical ethicist, and other pill users."
  • "Filmmaker Elise Swerhone and Erna Buffie chronicle the events surrounding the G.D. Searle company's launch of the first Pill in 1960, and the debates which raged during its early years. "The Pill was not always as safe as it is today", says Buffie. "The first Pill contained ten times the amount of estrogen and had serious side effects. The story of its development speaks to the continued need for strict drug company regulation." Activists such as Gloria Steinem and Barbara Seaman, author of The Doctor's Case Against the Pill (1969), are featured alongside key scientists, providing a fascinating chapter in our medical and social history."
  • "Filmmaker Elise Swerhone and Erna Buffie chronicle the events surrounding the G.D. Searle company's launch of the first Pill in 1960, and the debates which raged during its early years. "The Pill was not always as safe as it is today", says Buffie. "The first Pill contained ten times the amount of estrogen and had serious side effects. The story of its development speaks to the continued need for strict drug company regulation." Activists such as Gloria Steinem and Barbara Seaman, author of The Doctor's Case Against the Pill (1969), are featured alongside key scientists, providing a fascinating chapter in our medical and social history."@en

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  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Educational/cultural factual films and videos"
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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Educational films"@en

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  • "The Pill"
  • "The Pill"@en
  • "Pill (Motion picture : 1999)"@en
  • "The Pill [the untold story of the drug that changed the world]"
  • "The pill"
  • "The pill"@en

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