Unintended Consequences and the Pill

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 2, 2019

Beyond the well-known benefits and risks of birth control pills, Sarah Hill, evolutionary psychology researcher, professor at Texas Christian University and the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences  (Avery, 2019), looks at the possible effects of the hormones on brain chemistry.

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