WHITE COLLAR: The Dalkon Shield
With the permission from the team over at Swindled, we are covering one of their best True Crime stories. It’s a story of lies….cover-ups…and murder. But murder that was done out in the open while a company actually profited from women’s deaths. In today’s episode, we are discussing the Dalkon Shield, an IUD that killed at least twenty women, hurt hundreds of thousands, and is still being used overseas today.
Huge thanks to Swindled Podcast for their research into this episode. Check out their episode “The Contraceptive” wherever you get your podcasts, or on their website SwindledPodcast.com. Follow them on Twitter @swindledpodcast and Instagram @swindledpodcast.
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Episode Source Material
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**Thank you to ‘A Concerned Citizen’ from the podcast Swindled for providing us his research for this episode.**
- Nightmare: Women and the Dalkon Shield
- The Corporate Crime of the Century
- The Charge: Gynocide
- “Way of Control” by Alicia Puglionesi
- Chronicle of a Scandal
- What A. H. Robins has Wrought
- The Sad Legacy of the Dalkon Shield
- Dalkon Shield Trust to Pay $800 Million
- Hugh J. Davis, 69, Gynecologist who Invented Dalkon Shield
- The Dalkon Shield Disaster
- The IUD’s Long Path to Redemption
- After a Lawyer Turns Whistle-Blower, the Company That Made the Dalkon Shield Warns Women of Its Dangers
- From Medical Pariah to Feminist Icon: The Story of the IUD
- Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 Years Later
- Judge criticized for Dalkon Shield remarks
- The Birth Control Pill: A History
- Wikipedia – Dalkon Shield
- The Dalkon Shield
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