Download or read book Birth Control for a Nation: The IUD as Technoscientific Biopower, digital original edition written by Chikako Takeshita and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrauterine device (IUD) has been viewed both as a means for women's reproductive autonomy and as coercive tool of state-imposed population control, as a convenient form of birth control on a par with the pill and as a threat to women's health. This BIT examines the early development of the IUD through a feminist science lens, describing efforts to improve and measure its contraceptive efficacy.