An american biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus was the first scientist to experiment with in vitro fertilization and even achieve some level of success. But his legacy turned out to be the exact opposite. In collaboration with femisists Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick and a gynecologist John Rock he invented and brought to market the first oral contraceptive pill. How did such a U-turn happen?
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Additional materials:
Podcast «Hormonal»: https://helloclue.com/podcast/hormonal-podcast-clue/happy-birthday-birth-control
Podcast «99% invisible»: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/repackaging-the-pill/
This episode came about thanks to:
Author - Elena Chesnokova
Editors - Anastasia Yakubovskaya, Andrey Borzenko
Producers - Kirill Sychev, Anastasiа Sobova, Ksenia Krasilnikova and Lika Kremer
Sound engineer - Yuri Shustitsky
Jingle author - Kira Weinstein
Special thanks to Anna Filippova and Sergey Krasotin for their help.
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