TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riddle,John M
TI  - Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance
SN  - 9780674168763
AV  - RG137.R543.C668 1994 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Contraception
KW  - History
KW  - Oral contraceptives
KW  - Mifepristone
KW  - Medicine, Ancient
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
N1  - 1 (pages 211.-235) and index; 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; 2
ER  -