December 21, 2009 - MICHELE NORRIS, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.
And today, we have an unusual biography. It's the biography of a box of pills, how it got into a medicine cabinet in Richmond, Virginia, and into the medicine cabinets of millions of women all across America.
NPR's Alix Spiegel explains how the marketing of the pills changed the definition of a disease and created a whole new category of people who saw themselves as needing treatment.
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