In this selective review of the literature on medical sociology's engagement with technology,
we outline the concurrent developments of the American Sociological Association section on …

Bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical used in the production of plastics since the 1950s
and a known endocrine disruptor, is a ubiquitous component of the material environment …

This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist
scholarship-aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the …

This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first
extended-cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly …

Endocrine research in the 1930s increased and extended the use of sex hormones as
medical therapies in an unprecedented way, especially for female ailments. In the 1950s the …

improvement. Such conceptualizations of aging and aging bodies produce a market for
potential scientific and technological interventions from treatments deemed to be lifesaving …

The communication and regulation of risk has changed significantly over the past 30 years
in Europe and to a noticeable but lesser extent in the United States. In Europe, this is partly …

"[An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth."—Stephen Lowman, Washington Post
Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—have …

In this paper we examine how a standardized drug distribution system contributed to a
therapeutic and symbolic make-over of thalidomide. In the 1960s, thalidomide was seen as …

Renee R. Anspach, University of Michigan widely The health-care system is a deeply
gendered so-read books, feminist writers developed a cial institution, often affecting men …