The Pill

Examples of The Pill in the following topics:

• The Sexual Revolution

  • From an economic point of view, the Pill reduced the cost of staying in school.
  • The Pill and the sexual revolution was therefore an important part of the drive for sexual equality in the 1960s.
  • The combined oral contraceptive pills, approved by the FDA in the early 1960s.
  • The Pill had a profound impact on feminism and the sexual revolution.
  • Examine the consequences of the introduction of the birth control pill

• Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey

  • The publication of the Kinsey Report, the findings of norms in American sexuality by Dr.
  • "The pill" provided many women a more affordable way to avoid pregnancy.
  • Before the pill, there was a lack of affordable and safe options for contraception, rendering unwanted pregnancy a serious risk of premarital sexual activity.
  • The pill became an even more favored and socially acceptable means of birth control in 1965 when the Supreme Court decided the case of Griswold v.
  • Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality

• Principles of experimental design

  • For example, when patients take a drug in pill form, some patients take the pill with only a sip of water while others may have it with an entire glass of water.
  • To control for the effect of water consumption, a doctor may ask all patients to drink a 12 ounce glass of water with the pill.
  • The more cases researchers observe, the more accurately they can estimate the effect of the explanatory variable on the response.
  • Researchers sometimes know or suspect that variables, other than the treatment, influence the response.
  • For instance, if we are looking at the effect of a drug on heart attacks, we might first split patients in the study into low-risk and high-risk blocks, then randomly assign half the patients from each block to the control group and the other half to the treatment group, as shown in Figure 1.15.

• Effects of Drug Combinations

  • Pharmacodynamics is the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on the body or on microorganisms or parasites within or on the body.
  • Two well described interactions between antimicrobial drugs and other drugs are between antibiotics and alcohol and antibiotics and the birth control pill.
  • Another well studied interaction is between antibiotics and the contraceptive pill.
  • The majority of studies indicate that antibiotics do not interfere with contraceptive pills.
  • In cases where antibacterials have been suggested to affect the efficiency of birth control pills may be due to an increase in the activities of hepatic liver enzymes causing increased breakdown of the pill's active ingredients.

• Temperate Forests

  • The trees of the temperate forests leaf out and shade much of the ground; however, this biome is more open than tropical wet forests because trees in the temperate forests do not grow as tall as the trees in tropical wet forests.
  • The soils of the temperate forests are rich in inorganic and organic nutrients due to the thick layer of leaf litter on forest floors.
  • The leaf litter also protects soil from erosion, insulates the ground, and provides habitats for invertebrates (such as the pill bug or roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare) and their predators, such as the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus).
  • The leaf litter is home to invertebrates (such as the pill bug or roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare) and their predators, including the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus).
  • Deciduous trees, those that lose their leaves seasonally, are the dominant plant in the temperate forest.

• Mechanisms of Cultural Change

  • An invention that substantially changed culture was the development of the birth control pill, which changed women's attitudes toward sex.
  • Prior to the introduction of the birth control pill, women were at a high risk of pregnancy as a result of sex.
  • After the introduction of the pill, their risk of pregnancy was substantially reduced, increasing their willingness to engage in sexual activity outside of wedlock.
  • One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of the 20th century in western cultures (see, for example, the women's movement), while the other sex may be resistant to that change (possibly in order to maintain a power imbalance in their favor).
  • The symbol of the ankh has its roots in Egyptian religious practice, but the symbol diffused over time and was adopted by other groups, including pagans, as a religious symbol.

• Experiments exercises

  • The nurses who handed the prescribed pills to the patients knew which patient received which treatment, but the researchers assessing the patients when they were sick did not.
  • (e) Participants are ultimately able to choose whether or not to use the pills prescribed to them.
  • We might expect that not all of them will adhere and take their pills.
  • Conduct a mental health exam at the beginning and at the end of the study, and compare the results.
  • Since the sample is random, the conclusion can be generalized to the population at large.

• The New Wave of Feminism

  • Food and Drug Administration approved the birth control pill, freeing women from the restrictions of pregnancy and childbearing.
  • Within five years of the pill’s approval, some six million women were using it.
  • The pill was the first medicine ever intended to be taken by people who were not sick.
  • Among the specific goals was the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (yet to be adopted).
  • Outline the key events in the development of the second wave feminist movement

• Hormonal Methods

  • The original hormonal method—the combined oral contraceptive pill—was first marketed as a contraceptive in 1960.
  • The effect of hormonal agents on the reproductive system is complex.
  • Low dose progesterone-only contraceptives include traditional progesterone-only pills, the subdermal implant Jadelle, and the intrauterine system Mirena.
  • Intermediate dose progesterone-only contraceptives, such as the progesterone only pill Cerazette (or the subdermal implant Implanon), allow some follicular development but much more consistently inhibit ovulation in 97–99% of cycles.
  • Oral contraceptives typically come in foil packets with designated pills for each day.

• Cultural Change

  • One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of the 20th century in western cultures (see, for example, the women's movement), while the other sex may be resistant to that change (possibly in order to maintain a power imbalance in their favor).
  • For example, the end of the last ice age helped lead to the invention of agriculture. [21] Another invention that substantially changed culture was the development of the birth control pill, which changed women's attitudes toward sex.
  • Prior to the introduction of the birth control pill, women were at a high risk of pregnancy as a result of sex.
  • After the introduction of birth control pills, risk of pregnancy was substantially reduced, increasing heterosexual people's willingness to engage in sexual activity outside of wedlock.
  • Likewise, the introduction of the television substantially reduced American involvement in civic life.