Judith Richter
Judith Richter was born in Germany. She is a sociologist specialising in international development and has also qualified as a pharmacist. She has lived and worked in a number of countries. Since 1991, she has worked as a freelance researcher, writer and lecturer. And more recently as a consultant for UN agencies such as UNICEF and WHO. Much of her work over the last fifteen years has centred on the social, political and ethical aspects of communication and democratic decisionmaking, infant feeding, pharmaceutical policies and contraceptive research. She is also actively involved in various social movements, including Health Action International (HAI) and the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR). Her previous book was Vaccination Against Pregnancy: Miracle or Menace? (1996). She is also the author of Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate conduct, International Codes and Citizen Action.
Judith Richter
Judith Richter examines the research into a new class of birth control methods in which the body is challenged by immuno-contraceptives or anti-fertility ‘vaccines’. A model book that challenges unorthodox and dangerous research on women’s bodies and on their lives. A book that has wrought changes to research and stopped further development of medicines that create harm. Recommended for courses in medical ethics and health.
1996 | ISBN 9781875559572 | Paperback | 220 x 140 mm | 182 pp | LOW STOCK