Jonathan Eig turns the history of the pill into a smart and spicy account of the unlikely bonds that linked a millionaire activist, a free-loving crusader, a Roman Catholic gynecologist, and a maverick scientist. The Birth of the Pill is at once intelligent, well researched, witty, and captivating. · Jonathan Eig is best-known as the biographer of Al Capone, Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson, but his latest book breaks new www.doorway.ru “The Birth of the Pill: H. The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free .
As journalist Jonathan Eig brilliantly chronicles in The Birth Of the Pill, the pill didn't necessarily kick the feminist movement of the '60s into high gear, but it did aid and abet it. Having grown up in the factory town of Corning, New York, in a family of eleven, Margaret Sanger () saw firsthand what multiple pregnancies did to. Book Review: 'The Birth of the Pill,' by Jonathan Eig How a Jewish biologist, an MIT-educated heiress and a Catholic doctor triggered the sexual revolution. Eig does an admirable job blending medical, social, and political history in telling the story of how the birth control pill came about. The impact this medication had on culture is hard to overestimate, and its intertwining with sexual freedom, population control, women's liberation and equality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fascinating.
In telling the story of the various people and processes that came together in order to introduce the birth control pill, Jonathan Eig offers a well-written, interesting narrative that fleshes out the various characters involved as well as the many challenges they faced. In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the fascinating story of the four people whose combined efforts, arguably more than any others, made birth control effective, affordable, widely available, and perhaps most importantly (since it makes all the others possible), socially acceptable: Margaret Sanger, Dr. Gregory Pincus, Dr. John Rock, and Katherine McCormick. Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill, on the people made the pill a reality, the startling way it was tested, and the double standard around contraception that persists today. By Robin.
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