The wealthy socialite Katharine McCormick's singular focus and funding kept the research going. The genius scientist Gregory Pincus's research stretched the boundaries of law and ethics and tied him to the business interest of Searle pharmaceuticals. The feminist Margaret Sanger, in her campaign for the rights of women, sought a reliable birth control method as a means to sexual and social liberation. He presents us with four risk-taking outsiders whose path became intertwined in the pursuit of a reliable and simple contraceptive. Norton, 2014) gives us a lively narrative history of the development and marketing of the birth control pill. His book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (W.W. Jonathan Eig is a New York Times best-selling author of four books and former journalist for the Wall Street Journal.
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