Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance.
Publisher: Harvard U.P.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Description: This text traces the history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century, and discusses the scientific merit of the ancient remedies and why this knowledge about fertility control was gradually lost over the course of the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliography: p211-235. - and index.

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