Abortion in the Ancient World (Duckworth Classical Essays) (Duckworth Classical Essays)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780715630808
Subjects: Abortion; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of medicine; Social history; BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; Ancient - Greece; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Abortion & Birth Control; Ancient - Rome; Medical / History; Ancient - General; History; Moral and ethical aspects; To 1500
First sentence: The wide variety of methods used to procure abortions attested by ancient authors suggests that abortions were neither a novelty in the classical period nor an invention of Hippocratic medicine.