Episode 49: The History of Birth Control
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Pamela Verma Liao, MD, (2012) “Half a century of the oral contraceptive pill: Historical review and view to the future” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520685/
Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy, (2013) Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, Episode 13: Birth Control https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-birth-control/
Donna J Drucker, (2020) Contraception: A Concise History