The birth control pill has been called revolutionary; it’s been associated with a revolution in contraception, with the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and with what’s called the therapeutic revolution of the mid-20th century. Elizabeth Watkins discusses the pill’s development and impact in the arenas of medical practice, women’s liberation, popular perception, and pharmaceutical marketing.
Greene, Condrau, and Watkins, eds., Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press, 2016