[PDF.52rh] Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

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 | #896981 in Books |  1999-04-15 |  1999-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.88 x6.13l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Sex, Class, and the History of Science!|By Z.A. Mrefu|John Riddle documents how ordinary women collectively developed and used birth control from the ancient world to the renaissance. His work reminds the reader that science and medicine have historically been a collective human endeavor, not an activity reserved for an elite class of professional doctors and scientists. In thi|From Library Journal|Even in ancient times, people limited the size of their families. Since the major responsibilities of pregnancy, birth, and child rearing fell on women, they found methods for controlling fertility and aborting unwanted children, and they ha

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in m...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West   |  John M. Riddle.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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