the Pill trials (in Puerto Rico) were "the largest series of clinical tests ever performed" (Preciado 185)
begun 1955 in the "worst slum" on the island (see note on "eugenic uses of the Pill")
1957: Pill trials in Haiti
"the Pill trials were the first clinical tests to be externalized outside medical and pharmacological institutions and to take place in the domestic environment" (Preciado 188)