Books by Andrea Tone

Andrea Tone is Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University. She is the author of numerous articles and books including Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, named one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Washington Post, and which inspired the Emmy award-winning PBS documentary on the birth control pill. Devices and Desires received wide acclaim. The New York Times described it as marvellously eye-opening" and American Scientist praised it as remarkable...richly textured...[and] engaging to read." Her work has been featured on ABC, PBS, NPR, and the History Channel, and in the New York Times. She lives in Montreal.