Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g
The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g
Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Ritual
ISBN: 978-0-367-43450-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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Acknowledgements Introduction: History and Cultural Anthropology 1. The Pleasures of Procreation: Traditional and Biomedical Theories of Conception 2. ‘To Remedy Barrenness and to Promote the Faculty of Generation’: Promoting Fertility, 1500-1800 3. ‘Excellent Recipes to Keep from Bearing Children’: Restricting Fertility, 1500-1800 4. ‘All Manner of Art, to the Help of Drugs and Physicians’: Abortion as Birth Control 5. ‘Converting this Measure of Security into a Crime’: The Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion Laws Conclusion Notes Index