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The idea for this book originated from a paper I presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology held in Amsterdam in 2004. I thank Sharra Vostral for thinking of me when she was looking for a last-minute replacement for a panelist who had to drop out unexpectedly. I thought that this project would end with the conference paper and perhaps an article in the society’s journal, but session commenter Andre Tone suggested that this subject deserved a book-length treatment. Series editors Rima Apple and Janet Golden encouraged me to submit this manuscript to the Rutgers University Press series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. I am grateful to the Press’s director, Marlie Wasserman, and editors Doreen Valentine and Peter Mickulas for guiding this project from submission to final product. Internal and external research funding was essential to the completion of this book. Faculty Research Grants from the Connecticut State University– American Association of University Professors funded the extensive travel to archives needed to complete research for this project. National Institutes of Health Publication Grant LM 009242–01A2, sponsored by the Office of Research on Women’s Health, reduced my teaching load so that I could dedicate half of my time to writing and revision. I am thankful to Mimi Kaplan and Dean Kleinert from my university’s Grants and Funded Research Office and NIH Program officer Hua-Chuan Sim for helping me submit successful grant proposals. There are numerous archivists and librarians who have helped me with the research on this project. At Central Connecticut State University, I am especially indebted to the tireless efforts of interlibrary loan librarian Kimberly Farrington and her staff for their speed and efficiency in handling my voluminous requests. At the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, resource center director Mary Hyde, history librarian and archivist Debra Scarborough, and reference librarian Pamela Van Hine provided invaluable assistance in finding resources not only from ACOG but from individual reproductive health care professionals and feminist health organizations. Stephen Greenberg and Elizabeth Fee at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, also deserve thanks for their help and support. Historians Suzanne White Junod and John Swann from the Food and Drug Administration History Office shared their expert knowledge and helped me locate materials ix Acknowledgments x Acknowledgments on the agency’s role in promoting and regulating emergency contraception. I am also grateful to Susan Boone, reference librarian at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, and Ellen M. Shea, head of reference at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, for helping me navigate the various collections on women and reproductive rights housed in those libraries. I would like to acknowledge Malgosia Myc from the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan for locating the artist Germaine Keller, who created the image from the feminist periodical her-self used in chapter 3. I thank Ms. Keller for granting permission to use this image. Various reproductive health care professionals and women’s health activists have offered me insight and advice into the development of their field. Many of these individuals are named throughout the text and include Amy Allina, Marie Bass, Kelly Blanchard, Sharon Camp, Renee Chelian, Kelly Cleland, Belita Cowan, Margaret Johnson, Claire Keyes, Kirsten Moore, Judy Norsigian, Megan Peterson, James Trussell, Elizabeth Westley, and the late Barbara Seaman. Special thanks go to Drs. Ernest Kohorn and Philip Sarrell, who helped flesh out the story of early work on the “morning-after pill” at Yale–New Haven Hospital. I have also benefited greatly from the expert knowledge and extensive collection of papers of Dr. Takey Crist. Canadian obstetrician/gynecologist Al Yuzpe shared with me his memories of developing the emergency contraceptive regimen that bears his name. I am extremely grateful to Lisa Wynn for sharing her work-in-progress and tacit knowledge about the various individuals and organizations that work on emergency contraception in the United States. Morganne Rosenhaus from the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and Jane Gauthier and Jenny Lacombe from the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health were a great help in obtaining images for this book. Many thanks go to various friends and colleagues who have read and commented on this work as it progressed from conference papers to the final manuscript. In addition to the series editors and outside reviewer Rebecca Kluchin, these include...

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