Gendered drugs and medicine : historical and socio-cultural perspectives / edited by Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, María Jesús Santesmases.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

vi, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Gender and women in pharmaceutical research, consumption and industry -- Estrogens and butter yellow : gendered policies of contamination in Germany and Western Europe, 1940-1970 / Heiko Stoff -- Rising from failure : testing drugs and changing conceptions for female sexual dysfunction / Marta I González-García -- Circulating gender : women in antibiotics factories in Spain during Franco dictatorship / María Jesús Santesmases -- Contraceptives for women : between users and prescribers -- Spermicides and their female users after World War II : North and South / Ilana Löwy -- Managing medication and producing patients : imagining women's use of contraceptive pill compliance dispensers in 1960-s America / Carrie Eisert -- Doctors, women and the circulation of knowledge on oral contraceptives in Spain : 1960s-1970s / Agata Ignaciuk, Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, Esteban Rodríguez- Ocaña -- The contraceptive pill, the pharmaceutical industry and changes in the patient- doctor relationship / Ulrike Thoms -- Users and abusers then and now : discourses and practices -- Women, men, and the morphine problem, 1870-1955 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh -- "A gendered vice?" : gender issues and drug abuse in France, 1960s-1990s / Alexandre Marchant -- Learning to be a girl : gender risk and legal drugs among Spanish teenagers / Nuria Romo-Avilés, Carmen Meneses, Eugenia Gil-García -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.