Injectable Development

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ID4052703
AuthorsEmily Callaci
Year2018
Volume2018
Issue131
Pages82-104
Publication date2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-4355145
OpenAlexW2811404657
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Research Article| May 01 2018 “Injectable Development”: Depo-Provera and Creation of the Global South Emily Callaci Emily Callaci Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 82–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Emily Callaci; “Injectable Development”: Depo-Provera and Creation of the Global South. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 82–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355145 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search In 1972, the USFDA denied the Upjohn Corporation approval to produce and sell Depo-Provera—an injectable hormonal contraceptive—in the United States. Simultaneously, development experts promoted Depo-Provera as a form of aid to send abroad, especially in Africa and Asia. If one of the basic premises of biomedicine is the universality of the body and medical efficacy, what made Depo-Provera unsafe in one part of the world but efficacious in another? What did women around the world who were offered Depo-Provera have in common? This essay tracks how different actors—population control advocates, anti-Depo-Provera activists, and family planning workers—responded to the questions raised by Depo-Provera’s uneven global distribution. As an historical artifact, Depo-Provera reveals the multiple ways communities thought about global power at a moment of transition away from a world order structured by the logic of empires and toward a world bifurcated between Global North and South. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Depo-Provera, contraception, Global South, feminism Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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