Preven Demonstration Emergency Contraceptive Kit
Preven Demonstration Emergency Contraceptive Kit
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- Description (Brief)
- The popularity of “the Pill” created a new market for pharmaceutical companies. For the first time, healthy women would be taking medication for an extended period of time. Pill manufacturers developed unique packaging in order to distinguish their product from those of their competitors and build brand loyalty. Packaging design often incorporated a “memory aid” to assist women in tracking their daily pill regimen, as well as styled cases to allow pills to be discreetly carried in bags and purses. The National Museum of American History’s Division of Medicine and Science’s collection of oral contraceptives illustrates some of the changes that the packaging and marketing of the Pill underwent from its inception in 1960 to the present.
- Gynétics Medical Products of Somerville, New Jersey, produced this Preven demonstration emergency contraceptive kit around 1999. The kit contains a patient information book, a pregnancy test, and four pills in two pairs inside a silver blister pack. The kit opens into three panels bearing step-by-step instructions on how to use the emergency contraceptive kit. Unlike the version of Preven seen in object 1999.0226.1, this kit was for demonstration purposes only.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- emergency contraceptive kit, demonstration
- contraceptive, oral; emergency contraception
- contraceptive, oral
- emergency contraception
- date made
- 1999
- maker
- Gynetics
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Somerville
- Physical Description
- cardboard (box, sleeve material)
- paper (booklet, insert material)
- foil (blister pack material)
- plastic (packaging material)
- plastic (blister pack material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.2 cm x 22 cm x 6.5 cm; 7/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 2 9/16 in
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 21.9075 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1999.0226.2
- catalog number
- 1999.0226.2
- accession number
- 1999.0226
- Credit Line
- Gynetics Inc.
- subject
- Birth Control/Contraception
- Women's Health
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Birth Control
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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