A History of Contraception - From Antiquity to the Present Day (Paperback, New Ed)

This bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever-present in humna history and that mnay contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In cosidering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationaships on the other.

General

Imprint:	Blackwell Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1992
First published:	November 1992
Authors:	A. McLaren
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	284
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-631-18729-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Birth control, contraception, family planning
LSN:	0-631-18729-4
Barcode:	9780631187295

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