Eve's Herbs

Name: Eve's Herbs
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674270268
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A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

Autor: John M. Riddle

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The question addressed in this book is: if women once had access to effective means of birth control...

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Autor

John M. Riddle

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

352

EAN

9780674270268

ISBN

0674270266

Enbook ID

04635897

Editura

Harvard University Press

Greutate

542

Dimensiuni

157 x 235 x 21

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The question addressed in this book is: if women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? The author asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs, and shows how the new intellectual, religious and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed the "secret knowledge" to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstral-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal and other herbs was widespread through the centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the foetus was fully human from the moment of conception.

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