Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning

About the Author

Manon Parry, PhD, is an exhibition curator and historian and an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches courses on media studies , American studies, and public history. She is coeditor, with Ellen S. More and Elizabeth Fee, of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), which won the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Publication Award for Best Print Publication in 2012. Dr. Parry has curated gallery and online exhibitions on a wide range of topics, as well as traveling exhibitions that have visited more than three hundred venues in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Turkey, and Guam. An online exhibition accompanying this book that includes examples of family planning media as well as teaching materials for classroom use is available at www .broadcastingbirthcontrol.com. About the Author Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series: Emily K. Abel, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative Emily K. Abel, Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Luisa N. Borrell, and William Vega, eds. Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach Susan M. Chambré, Fighting for Our Lives: New York’s AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health Cynthia A. Connolly, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970 Tasha N. Dubriwny, The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women’s Health Edward J. Eckenfels, Doctors Serving People: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service Julie Fairman, Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care Jill A. Fisher, Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Alyshia Gálvez, Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care and the Birth Weight Paradox Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman, The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz, Diagnosis,Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine Rachel Grob, Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking Mark A. Hall and Sara Rosenbaum, eds., The Health Care “Safety Net” in a Post-Reform World Laura D. Hirshbein, American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century Timothy Hoff, Practice under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel N. Grob, and Mark Schlesinger, eds., Patients as Policy Actors Ruth Horowitz, Deciding the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and Discipline Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950–1980 Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform Bonnie Lefkowitz, Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen Ellen Leopold, Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War Barbara L. Ley, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic David Mechanic, The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century Heather Munro Prescott, The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation: America’s Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort , 1869–1920 Karen Seccombe and Kim A. Hoffman, Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform Leo B. Slater, War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and Miriam Labbok, Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities Matthew Smith, An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, eds., History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In Barbra MannWall, American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions Frances Ward, The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner ...