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The Birth Control Pill, History of the Birth Control Pill - Lauren, Birth…

- - - - Dangerous Side effects: Blood clots, heart attacks, cervical cancer ( Geampana, 2018)
      - Beneficial Appearance side effects: Acne control ( Geampana, 2018)
      - Considered Normal side effects: Weight gain, nausea, headaches ( Geampana, 2018) even though they affected women's daily lives.
    - - -Risks covered by the media that is dramatize ( Geampana, 2018)
        
        the insert of side affects added to the packages
        
        Research that looks into risk but only to be able to increase usage of the pill ( Geampana, 2018)
        
        Big pharma role in marketing medications
        
        Lay experts think that oral contraceptives are more risky while health experts believe that the risk of an unplanned pregnancy is more riskier. ( Geampana, 2018)
- - - - 1/10,000 will develop a blood clot in the older generation Birth control
        3/10,000 will develop a blood clot on the newer generation (CBC,2013)
- - - - A Denmark study followed women 15-34yrs for 14 years, and found that 50% of women who went on birth control were more likely do be diagnosed with depression compared to women who had not gone on hormonal birth control (Hill,2020)
        
        Other forms of birth control such has IUD, the patch, vaginal ring also had similar findings (Hill,2020)
      - Some doctors tell their patients that their increase in anxiety or depression is not real
      - Through weakening the Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA).
        GABA, a inhibitory neurotransmitter works by inhibiting the brain which relaxes us. When a woman takes a contraceptive pill the artificial progestine that usually helps stimulates GABA has low levels which in return result in having the woman's GABA activity low due to not being triggered. This can lead to feelings of anxiousness, depression, and feeling overwhelmed (Hill,2020)
- - - - Asking men to be responsible for reproduction threatens the social order
      - The introduction and acceptance of male contraception requires changes about cultural ideals of who is responsible for reproduction and the shift from women's bodies being the only ones seen as reproductive and responsible for reproduction
      - Reproductive responsibility landed on women once again due to the fact that the vast majority of women did not trust their partners to be accountable enough to take the contraceptive on a regular basis
      - There was a social construction in place that assumed that the contraceptive technologies were too painful for men and that the men were too oversensitive. This was associated to the line of thought that assumed that men are more sensitive to pain than women are
      - Beck, Julie (2016) The Different Stakes of Male and Female Birth Control. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/the-different-stakes-of-male-and-female-birth-control/506120/
        
        Deveopment of make contraception gets halted due to symptoms of mood changes, depression, pain at the injection site, and increased libido. Many if not all of these symptoms also apply to female contraception although they are not considered too intense or dangerous for women to experience unlike men
        
        A male contraception was given up due to an annual implant and a quarterly injection being considered too inconvenient and difficult to keep up. This is opposed to women's contraception options that are no less convenient for example women having to take a pill daily.
- - - - creating separate spaces for men within already existing clinics
      - Enrolling new professionals within the field that can be trained to be more include and sensitive to particular gendered issues
      - Founding specialized clinics for men
      - Understand the resistance to previous networks and what it takes to build a new network that will accept the idea of a male contraception
      - Requires a transformation of previously created socio technical networks
- - - - Different criteria can be applied to assess the acceptability of the male contraception
      - News media can play a major role in shaping scientific claims by either replicating the results of the experiment in the newspaper or they can choose to contest the results. For examples refutes to replicate testing of male contraception technologies could result in a bad public discourse through the media and therefore the cultural feasibility of that technology may not be achievable
      - The representation of the user can function as a tool to enhance the cultural feasibility of a technology. Representations can be used to further enhance and propel a technology or reject and denounce it
      - Media coverage simplifies information and presents the public with an ideal perfect picture. For example, breakthroughs in biomedical sciences often receive vast amount of media coverage which is usually a simplified and promising picture of what has actually been claimed
- - - - Premenstrual Syndrome
      - Anemia
      - Acne
    - - Endometrial and ovarian cancers
      - Serious infections in ovaries, fallopain tubs, uterus
      - Cysts in breasts and ovaries
  - - - The potential for an increase in breakthrough bleeding is considered a small disadvantage for the control birth control provides
      - Improve anterior cruciate ligament strength
      - Menstrual suppression
      - Reduces emergencies like:
        
        Ovarian torsion
        
        Pelvic inflammatory disease
        
        Ectopic pregnancy
        
        Hemorrhagic cyst formation
      - Decreased incidence of:
        
        Bone mineral density loss
        
        Dysmenorrhea
        
        Dysfunction bleeding
  - - - Your doctor can help you weigh the benefits and risks of each method to determine what will work best for you. Bedsides, a nonprofit organization committed to preventing unwanted pregnancy, also has a tool that allows you to find providers of free or low-cost birth control in your area.
      - Hormonal birth control also doesn’t protect against sexually transmitted infections. Unless you’re with a long-term partner and you’ve both been tested, make sure to use a condom or other protective barrier during sexual activity.
      - For some, hormonal birth control can also cause a range of physical and emotional symptoms, from joint pain to psychosis. When choosing a birth control option, make sure to tell your doctor about any side effects you’ve experienced with other methods you’ve tried.
      - Hormonal birth control isn’t for everyone. If you smoke and are over the age of 35, it can increase your risk of blood clots and high blood pressure. In addition, some types of hormonal birth control, such as combination pills and the patch, can increase your risk of blood clots and high blood pressure, even in nonsmokers
- - - - Lack of equity despite increased production
    - - Meaning of the medication changes depending where in the world it is taken.
  - - - Stigma - only certain types of people take these
    - - She is promiscuous if she is on birth control and doesn't have a boyfriend
    - - How medications effect women in different places in the world. Most medications clinical trailed on men and then just a lower dose for woman.
    - - My identified tied to birth control
    - - Demographics
    - - Off label use
    - - A part of culture