Prescribing Reproductive Rights: Pills and the Politics of Family Planning, 1960 - 2024
Join the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing for a seminar that explores the history of fertility control drugs relating to questions of side effects, prescription status, patient education, and access, with Kelly O’Donnell, PhD.
This public seminar will be in a hybrid format. RSVP is required to attend in-person or to receive a link for virtual attendance.
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Hosted by: Bates Center
About the Seminar
Abstract: The birth control pill, the morning after pill, mifepristone—pharmaceuticals have been at the center of debates over reproductive rights since the 1960s. This talk will explore episodes in the history of fertility control drugs relating to questions of side effects, prescription status, patient education, and access.
Speaker: Kelly O’Donnell, PhD, Bryn Mawr College
For accessibility and accommodation requests please contact Elisa Stroh at nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu or (215) 898-4502 before March 25, 2024.
This seminar is co-sponsored by Penn Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health, the Department of History, and the program in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.