DES and pregnancy

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The paper discusses how DES, although not adequately tested, was marketed as preventing miscarriages and producing healthier babies. The paper describes how, for more than three decades, pregnant women and their children were exposed to the drug until the dangers to pregnant women became clear in 1971. The writer proposes that the effects on women resulted from a collusion between doctors, the drug industry, researchers and governments, as well as from the male medical field and cultural assumptions regarding gender. The writer argues that DES was an outstanding example of the medicalization of women's bodies. The paper reports on four mothers and their daughters impacted by DES and the links such as pregnancy, health, and co-exposure.

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