Surviving the Dalkon Shield Iud: Women V. the Pharmaceutical Industry (Athene)
By Karen M. Hicks.
Description
This text chronicles the development of a contemporary women's social protest movement which arose in response to Robin's legal efforts to minimise its financial accountability to the women injured by its product. The author uses the events of this medical/corporate scandal to reflect on medical violence against women, the process of empowerment and women's grass-roots political activism. Throughout the book, Hicks is able to draw upon her status as an insider (she is a Dalkon Shield survivor and founder of the Dalkon Shield Information Network) and as a social scientist to a...
ISBN(s)
0807762709, 9780807762707
