Riddle, John M, <br/><br/>
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance /  [print] 
John M. Riddle. 
 - first Harvard University Press paperback edition. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  Harvard University Press,  (c)1994. 
 - x, 245 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Population and sex --  Evidence for oral contraceptives and abortifacients --  Soranus on antifertility agents --  Terminology in Dioscorides' De materia medica --  Early stage abortifacients in Dioscorides and Soranus --  Ancient society and birth control agents --  Egyptian papyrus sources --  Greek and Roman medicine from Hippocrates to Galen --  The late Roman empire and early Middle Ages --  The Middle Ages : the church, Macer, and Hildegard --  Salerno and medicine through the twelfth century --  Islam, Arabic medicine, and the late Middle Ages --  Knowledge of birth control in the West --  The Renaissance --  Later developments. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674168763 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Contraception--History.<br/>Oral contraceptives--History.<br/>Mifepristone--History.<br/>Medicine, Ancient.<br/>Medicine, Medieval.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RG137.R543.C668 1994