The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and, more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it. Side-stepping simplistic readings of these women as either radical feminist trailblazers or guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical industry, medical historian Heather Munro Prescott offers a portrait of how ordinary women participated in the development and popularization of emergency contraception, bringing a groundbreaking technology into the mainstream with the potential to alter radically reproductive health practices.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. A Second Revolution in Birth Control
2. Courageous Volunteers
3. Feminist Health Activism and the Feds
4. Balancing Safety and Choice
5. Building Consensus
6. Mainstreaming Emergency Contraception
7. From Paternalism to Patient Empowerment
Conclusion

Notes
Index

HEATHER MUNRO PRESCOTT is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of Student Bodies: The Impact of Student Health on American Society and Medicine and the award-winning A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.