Vaccination Against Pregnancy Miracle or Menace? by Judith Richter Price: $27.50 (Australian dollars) $34.95 (NZ dollars)

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Richter's serious and compelling critique of immunological contraceptives raises the fundamental question of who controls what and for what purpose. This book is a major contribution to the international women's health movement.

- Betsy Hartmann

The new immunological contraceptives now under development are being hailed as a breakthrough in medical science and a solution to population growth in developing countries. They work by provoking an auto-immune response which tricks the body into attacking its own reproductive hormones as though they were some kind of infection.

But preventing pregnancy is not like fighting a disease. Will these new contraceptives be reliable? Are they safe? Are the results reversible? And does their design encourage coercion and abuse?

A public debate is urgently needed, this book argues, before immunological contraceptives become a 'fact of life' for women.
Judith Richter is a trained pharmacist and former university lecturer. She currently works as a freelance researcher.