This second edition features new material on: women with weight issues and transgender and non-binary people. It also includes the 2016 UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for contraceptive use, and is the ideal practical reference guide for GPs and other healthcare professionals co…
Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility.
"Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr. Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception b…
Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility.
In Contraception And Abortion From The Ancient World To The Renaissance, Riddle showed that women in ancient times relied on herbs to regulate fertility. In this volume, he shows that this ancient knowledge was not lost, but survived in coded form.
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations for Archival Sources in the Notes, Appendixes, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Midwifery, Monstrosity, and Motherhood -- Part I: Purity and Productivity: Understanding Virginity, Conception, and Pregnancy -- 1. The Evo…
"In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates …
In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates t…
In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates t…
