Karen Cosden interviewed by Eileen Zalisk: March 21, 1979

Program Title:
Karen Cosden interviewed by Eileen Zalisk: March 21, 1979
Series Title:
The Velvet Sledgehammer
PRA Archive #: 
IZ0921
Description: 

Eileen Zalisk interviews Karen Cosden[sp?] about women and sex hormones. "Fighting the Crisis of Sex Hormones" will be the theme of an upcoming conference covering the drug DES (banned in 1973), which was prescribed to pregnant women to prevent complications during pregnancy but was shown to have numerous debilitating side effects, including cancer and birth defects, as well as other estrogen-based hormone drugs.

Original tape box image: 
Station: 
WBAI
Date Recorded on: 
March 21, 1979
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, ca. March 21, 1979
Item duration: 
1 reel (15 min.) : 7 1/2 ips. mono.
Keywords: 
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American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Birth control
Sex hormones
Diethylstilbestrol--Adverse effects.
Contributor: 
Eileen Zalisk
Role: 
Interviewer
Genre: 
American Women -- Health
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archives, 1979
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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