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Modern IUDs - intrauterine devices - are a safe form of contraception for most women. But this wasn't always the case. Author Chikako Takeshita traces the history and development of these devices, originally created for population control in 1960s, and talks about one IUD in particular, the Dalkon Shield, which would cause widespread harm to the women who used it, and in some cases, had lethal consequences.Click the 'Follow' button for more women's health stories.Show notes:The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547840/the-global-biopolitics-of-the-iud/Chikako Takeshita: Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside - https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/chikakotMore information about IUDs: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24441-intrauterine-device-iud New to Overlooked? Welcome! Overlooked was launched in 2023 to tell the story of ovarian cancer through one woman's story. In 2024 the show started to cover all kinds of other overlooked topics in women's health - and there are many. The show is hosted by Golda Arthur, an audio journalist and producer. See why Overlooked is an award-winning podcast by taking a listen to our back catalog. LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR? Support Overlooked on Patreon, and get rewards like merch, the ability to send in questions for expert guests, and a 'backstage pass' to the show. GET ON THE LIST for the newsletter to learn the backstory to the episodes, and join a community of people who are deeply engaged with women's health topics. Sign up here: https://overlookedpodcast.kit.com/e4b85028b6 EMAIL US: hello@overlookedpod.com FOLLOW US:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overlookedpod/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/105541285/admin/dashboard/ LEARN MORE: https://overlookedpod.com/ DISCLAIMER What you hear and read on ‘Overlooked' is for general information purposes only and represents the opinions of the host and guests. The content on the podcast and website should not be taken as medical advice. Every person's body is unique, so please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions that may arise.
Getting an IUD can be painful. Really painful. Last month, new regulations came out in the US about managing this pain. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that before anyone gets an IUD, patients should be counseled on pain management ahead of time. But what about Canada?Credits: Mia Johnson (Reporter and Journalism Fellow), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)Special thanks: Cherise Seucharan, Noor Azrieh, Arshy Mann, and Jordan CornishAdditional music by Audio NetworkFurther reading:IUD insertions can hurt – a lot. Can Canada learn from new U.S. pain management guidelines? | CBC NewsIUD most effective birth control method, Canadian pediatricians declare | CBC NewsB.C. doctors say pay boost for IUD insertions will reduce patient pain, waitlists | CTV NewsWhy Haven't We Figured Out How to Make IUDs Less Excruciating? | Mother JonesContraceptive Use and Ten-Year Trends in Canadian Women of Reproductive Age | Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada Medical records in litigation: the Dalkon Shield story | U.S. National Library of Medicine Statement on Intrauterine Devices, Counseling and Pain Management | The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Sponsors: BetterHelp: Canadaland listeners head to https://betterhelp.com/canadaland to get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “canadaland" will be automatically applied.Douglas: Douglas is giving our listeners a FREE Sleep Bundle with each mattress purchase. Get the sheets, pillows, mattress and pillow protectors FREE with your Douglas purchase today. Visit https://douglas.ca/canadaland to claim this offer!Oxio: Canadaland listeners get their first month of internet free at https://canadaland.oxio.ca, use the promo code “Canadaland”If you value this podcast, support us! You'll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You'll also get our exclusive newsletter, discounts on merch at our store, tickets to our live and virtual events, and more than anything, you'll be a part of the solution to Canada's journalism crisis, you'll be keeping our work free and accessible to everybody.You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
David and Rachel discuss the disastrous development and marketing of the Dalkon Shield IUD. Script by Haley B.
Aileen is back is back to finish of this series on Population Control in Africa. And. It. Gets. BLEAK. I am talking “bribing-women-to-get-sterilized,” “inserting-IUDs-into-13-year-olds'-bodies,” “rewarding-doctors-for-contracepting/steralizing-as-many-women-as-possible,” BLEAK. Surprisingly, the digression was about the National Anthem of the Soviet Union Audio Clips: American Eagle Last Week Tonight, “One Child Policy” Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman Sparkle Sound Effect That Mitchell and Webb, “Are We the Baddies” Sources Butte College, TIP Sheet: Conspiracy and Conspiracism (2019) Charlotte McDonald, How Many Earths do we Need? (2015) Clare L. Roepke & Eric A. Schaff, Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 Years Later (2014) E. Wesley F. Peterson, The Role of Population in Economic Growth (2017) Hippolyte Fofack, Changing the Africa Population Narrative (2021) Karl Itman, African Populations and British Imperial Power, 1800–1970 (2022) Lisa Baker, Control and the Dalkon Shield (2001) Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Minkin, The Charge: Gynocide (1979) Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008) Matthew Connelly, How did the ‘population control' movement go so terribly wrong? (2008) Monica Bahati Kuumba, Perpetuating Neo-Colonialism through Population Control: South Africa and the United States(1993) Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016) Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016) USAID Policy Paper, Population Assistance (1982)
Today we focus on two powerhouse activists in the world of reproductive rights and justice: Grace Kodindo and Loretta Ross. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the early 1970s, the Dalkon Shield was the hottest and most popular IUD on the market. Spearheaded by 4 men who claim that this is the most successful contraceptive out there, why wouldn't we believe them? But then women started to get sick. And die. And the truth behind this device comes to light... - POSHMARK LINK BUY SOME MERCH! SPOOKY SHOW INSTAGRAM KAIT'S INSTAGRAM KAIT'S TWITTER HARRISON'S INSTAGRAM HARRISON'S TWITTER Email the show: spookyshowpod@gmail.com Listen to Good to see you @goodtoseeyoupod, goodtoseeyoupod.com Listen to Harrison's band baseball hat on Spotify! NEW EPISODE EVERY MONDAY! RATE AND REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spookyshowpod/support
Join Aileen and a GUEST, as they talk about conspiracy theories, population control, and perhaps the worst IUD in human history – the Dalkon Shield. Surprisingly, there are no digressions (huh, who even knew these were possible) Sources Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, Conspiracy theories and pandemic management in Africa: critical reflections on contexts, contradictions and challenges (2021) Anna C. “Instrument of Torture”: The Dalkon Shield Disaster (2016) Asia Murphy, Conservation's Biggest Challenge? The Legacy of Colonialism (Op-Ed), (2019) Butte College, TIP Sheet: Conspiracy and Conspiracism (2019) Charlotte McDonald, How Many Earths do we Need? (2015) Clare L. Roepke & Eric A. Schaff, Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 Years Later (2014) David Pendergast, Colonial wildlife conservation and the origins of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire (1903–1914) (2003) E. Wesley F. Peterson, The Role of Population in Economic Growth (2017) Egypt Initiative for Personal Rights, Beyond superstition: How IUDs moved (2021) Hala Iqbal, How the CIA's fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust (2021) Heather Prescott, “This Is Not A Dalkon Shield”: The Renaissance Of The Intrauterine Device In The United States” (2016) Hippolyte Fofack, Changing the Africa Population Narrative (2021) Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Karen M Douglas, Conspiracy Theories as Part of History: The Role of Societal Crisis Situations (2017) Karl Ittmann, African Populations and British Imperial Power, 1800–1970 (2022) Lisa Baker, Control and the Dalkon Shield (2001) Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Minkin, The Charge: Gynocide (1979) NHS, Intrauterine device (IUD) (2021) Planned Parenthood, IUD (n.d.) Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces, (2016) Rainey Howitz, The Dalkon Shield, (2018)
Don't call it a comeback! -- Giuli and Cat are back, back again with an insanely poignant and frustrating case. This week we explore the development of the Dalkon Shield, a once deemed "revolutionary" contraceptive that destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women around the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ms-murder/support
The Dalkon Shield was a birth control created with profit in mind to create basically the most horrible IUD ever made. Multiple red flags quickly came to light and were ultimately ignored, resulting in the death of over 20 women.What we DIDN'T tell you about this episode is that one of us accidentally became painfully high right as we began to record. This PERSON couldn't read a fucking label and accidentally drank 20 mgs of THC
The Dalkon Shield was an IUD developed in the 1960s by OB-GYN Hugh Davis with electrical engineer Irwin Lerner. They brought in a lawyer, Robert Cohn, to help them form The Dalkon Corp. Because The Dalkon Corp had no sales force, they decided to sell the product to another company. That company was AH Robins, who made Robitussin and chapstick, among other things. After more than a decade, many findings came out about the Dalkon Shield. Instead of using a monofilament string, this IUD used hundreds of tiny filaments covered by an open-ended sheath. The tiny spaces between the filaments provided a ladder for bacteria to climb from the vagina to the sterile uterus. In this episode, we recount the many, many times this was brought as a concern to officials at AH Robins and the equally many times the concern was dismissed. A quality control manager plays the hero and keeps expressing concern until he loses his job. Ultimately, AH Robins had to pay out millions to their female victims that suffered unmentionable medical issues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/11/17/the-dalkon-shield-disaster/6c58f354-fa50-46e5-877a-10d96e1de610/ https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/dalkon-shield#:~:text=The%20Dalkon%20Shield%20was%20an,was%20supposed%20to%20prevent%20pregnancy. https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/white-collar-dalkon-shield/ Learn more about #QualityMatters & Texas Quality Assurance :LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubewww.qmcast.com | Texas Quality Assurance
After a brief hiatus we are coming in hot with a beakful of information from Mama Bird about the Dalkon Shield, the earliest human IUD that was as dangerous as it was crablike and the consequences of its inventor who profited from it long after production ground to a halt in America. Special Guest Appearance: The Edmund Fitzgerald (again). The Socials https://twitter.com/WITIPod https://twitter.com/TylerWITIPod https://twitter.com/ThatWednesday Instagram is @worstintheindustry Email us at worstintheindustrypod@gmail.com
Robert is joined again by Samantha McVey to discuss how the Dalkon Shield influenced population control. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Robert is joined by Samantha McVey to discuss the Dalkon Shield. FOOTNOTES: 1. https://www.silentmother.com/2016/05/04/the-dalkon-shield-a-story-of-corporate-greed-a-lack-of-medical-testing-and-an-ongoing-fear-of-the-iud/ 2. http://advocatesaz.org/2016/03/28/instrument-of-torture-the-dalkon-shield-disaster/ 3. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/06/magazine/the-sad-legacy-of-the-dalkon-shield.html 4. https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2002/03/checkered-history-and-bright-future-intrauterine-contraception-united-states 5. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1979/11/charge-gynocide/ 6. http://imjournal.com/depo/IMCJ_12_1_p27_34Spevack.pdf 7. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2009/11/23/the-dark-past-of-population-confrom/ 8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4125211 9. https://www.sierraclub.org/washington/blog/2020/01/overpopulation-myth-and-its-dangerous-connotations 10. https://www.pop.org/population-control-and-the-new-global-racism/ 11. https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/mar/9/how-racist-myths-built-population-growth-bogey-man 12. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/overpopulation-alarmism-only-marginalizes-the-worlds-most-vulnerable-people/ 13. https://www.drugwatch.com/news/2013/06/28/mirena-litigation-dalkon-shield-injuries/ 14. https://www.litigationandtrial.com/mirena-lawsuit-brain-injury/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
This week we share some sick scandals from a time long ago and a more recent #SiliconScam that are worth throwing some shade at. The Dalkon Shield and Theranos scandals meet at the intersection of biotechnology and its relation to the invention of “life changing” medical devices. But not really. But they tried. We're just here to donate our two cents on it though. Be sure to follow our Twitter & Instagram accounts for hard evidence, discussions, and to see visuals pertaining to each episode, @itsasickness_ Cheers! Topics covered: Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos scandal Dr. Hugh J. Davis' birth control invention, the Dalkon Shield --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsasickness/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsasickness/support
This week Jessica Wellington (The Mule, Gracie & Frankie) joins as we explore the story of AH Robbins and the Dalkon Shield - a medical device from the 1970's that severely harmed thousands of women. Learn about the device, the cover up, and the brave whistle-blowers who helped expose the truth. *Adult Content* --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/villainsofhistory/support
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This week we delve into the weirdness that is medical history, with Ivana's absolutely disturbing story about the state of women's health and Ana's less intense history of medical scrubs (which was chosen specifically to counteract how intense Ivana's story is). You've been warned! Other topics include unlimited chicken, Whole Foods hot bars, ripped jeans, and how legit Wikipedia is. Please follow us on Facebook and check out our website!
Thalidomide, DES, the Dalkon Shield, Essure, Pelvic Mesh. The list of medical devices and treatments for women that have gone very wrong is extensive. Learn how big business has put profits over women's safety and health, and my top 5 recommendations for avoiding unnecessary, inappropriate, or possibly unsafe medical treatments. For an accompanying article and episode links, go to https://avivaromm.com/110
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Folge 7: DAS VERHÜTUNGSMITTEL - Der verhängnisvolle Dalkon ShieldEin Pharmaunternehmen schaut weg während sein neues Verhütungsmittel, die Spirale Dalkon Shield, mehr als 2 Millionen Frauen auf der ganzen Welt in Lebensgefahr bringt.Mehr davonDu kannst die nächste Episode nicht abwarten? Dann hör die gesamte neue Staffel in unserer Podcast-App Podimo. Dort findest Du auch eine Menge an neuen Podcasts die nur auf Podimo zu hören sind. Meld Dich jetzt an unter www.podimo.de/sg... Und genieß die Show.PodimoBei Podimo findest Du die Podcasts, die Du bereits kennst und liebst, sowie viele exklusive Inhalte von bekannten und brandneuen Hosts.Unsere Mission bei Podimo ist es, ein neues Ökosystem aufzubauen: Podcaster werden angemessen dafür entlohnt, Inhalte zu erstellen, die Menschen gerne anhören. Dank unseres Geschäftsmodells wird Dein Lieblings-Podcast jedes Mal finanziell unterstützt, wenn Du ihn Dir anhörst. Erfahre mehr auf www.podimo.deSocial MediaNie eine neue Folge verpassen? Immer über neue spannende Podcasts Bescheid wissen? Entdecken wie es bei Podcastern hinter der Kulisse aussieht? Dann folge uns jetzt auf:Instagram @podimo_deFacebook @podimopodcastsDETwitter @podimo_DE
With the permission from the team over at Swindled Podcast, we are covering one of their best True Crime stories. It's a story of lies.... cover-ups... and murder. But murder that was done out in the open while a company actually profited from women's deaths. In today's episode, we are discussing the Dalkon Shield, an IUD that killed at least twenty women, hurt hundreds of thousands, and is still being used overseas todayHuge thanks to Swindled Podcast for their research into this episode. Check out their episode, The Contraceptive, wherever you get your podcasts, or on their website SwindledPodcast.com, and follow them on Twitter @swindledpodcast and Instagram @swindledpodcastSources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/white-collar-dalkon-shield/
With the permission from the team over at Swindled Podcast, we are covering one of their best True Crime stories. It’s a story of lies.... cover-ups... and murder. But murder that was done out in the open while a company actually profited from women’s deaths. In today’s episode, we are discussing the Dalkon Shield, an IUD that killed at least twenty women, hurt hundreds of thousands, and is still being used overseas today Huge thanks to Swindled Podcast for their research into this episode. Check out their episode, The Contraceptive, wherever you get your podcasts, or on their website SwindledPodcast.com, and follow them on Twitter @swindledpodcast and Instagram @swindledpodcast Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/white-collar-dalkon-shield/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Misplaced fears about IUDs have caused them to be avoided by many women, despite the fact that they are very safe and among the most effective means for contraception. In this JAMA Clinical Reviews podcast, we review long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and how contraceptive practices were affected by the Dalkon Shield tragedy.
A pharmaceutical company looks the other way as its promising new birth control product, the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device (IUD), endangers the lives of more than 2 million women around the world. Prelude: A pill scare sweeps the nation as a result of the Nelson Pill Hearings. Support the show by becoming a ValuedListener™ at Patreon.com/Swindled. Or donate directly at SwindledPodcast.com/Support. Buy something at SwindledPodcast.com/Shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants are becoming increasingly popular as birth control methods. Between 2011 and 2013, the number of women using an IUD increased 83 percent from the previous four years, according to a 2015 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Though today LARCs are recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as very safe and effective methods of birth control, they have a troubled history that have made many people slow to accept them. In the second episode of our miniseries CHOICE/LESS: The Backstory, Loretta Ross, one of the founding mothers of the reproductive justice movement, talks about how her experience with the infamous Dalkon Shield IUD inspired her career as a human rights activist. Note: This updated episode features a correction of a minor audio issue from the previous version.