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Encyclopedia of birth control

Title
Encyclopedia of birth control / Vern L. Bullough, editor ; Brenda Appleby ... [et al.], associate editors ; with James A. Brundage ... [et al.].
Format
Book
Published
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2001.
Description
xv, 349 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
URL
<Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/abcclio041/2001001345.html
Other contributors
Bullough, Vern L.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Abortion
  • Abortion and birth control clinics
  • Abortion in the nineteenth century
  • Abortion in the twentieth century
  • Abstinence
  • African slaves in the United States and birth control
  • Age at pregnancy
  • American birth control league
  • Anemia, diet and pregnancy
  • Apothecaries, abortifacients, contraceptives and patent medicines
  • Augustine, Saint (d. 430)
  • Barrier contraceptives
  • Besant, Annie (1847-1933)
  • Birth control
  • Birth control clinical research bureau
  • Birth control review
  • Bradlaugh, Charles (1833-1891)
  • Bradlaugh-Besant trial
  • Breast-feeding as a method of birth control
  • Brownsville birth control clinic
  • Cadbury, George (1907-1995)
  • Canada and birth control
  • Canon law and abortion
  • Canon law and contraception
  • Carlile, Richard (1790-1843)
  • Catholic Church (American) and birth control
  • Cervical cap
  • Cervical rings
  • China and birth control
  • Christian hostility to birth control
  • Classical medical and scientific writers on birth control
  • Classical world
  • Coitus interruptus (withdrawal)
  • Coitus reservatus
  • Comstock, Anthony (1844-1915) and Comstockery
  • Condom
  • Cooper James F. (1880-1931)
  • Council of Trent and Catholic tradition
  • Criminalizing of abortion
  • Demography and population control in early modern Europe
  • Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware (1872-1947)
  • Diaphragm
  • Dickinson, Robert Latou ((1861-1950)
  • Distribution of contraceptive products in nineteenth century America
  • Douching
  • Drysdale, George (1825-1904)
  • Dung
  • Ejaculation and pregnancy
  • Emergency contraception
  • Eugenics
  • Family planning as a right (United Nations)
  • Fellatio as a contraceptive technique
  • Fertile period
  • Fertility in males
  • Food and drug administration (United States)
  • Foote, Edward Bliss (1829-1906)
  • France and birth control
  • Freethinkers, radicals and socialists
  • Gamble, Clarence James (1894-1966)
  • German medical contributors
  • Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
  • Herbal contraceptives and abortifacients
  • Homosexuality as birth control
  • Hormones and their delivery for contraceptive purposes
  • Implants
  • India and birth control
  • Infant mortality
  • Infanticide
  • Infibulation
  • Injectables
  • Intercourse, age, and pregnancy potential
  • International meetings and congresses
  • Intrauterine devices (IUDs)
  • Islam
  • Jailed
  • Judaism and the Jewish tradition
  • Kaufman, Alvin Ratz (1885-?)
  • Knowlton, Charles (1800-1850)
  • Male contraceptives
  • Male potential for impregnating
  • Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)
  • Masturbation
  • Maternity ratio, total
  • McCormick, Katharine Dexter (1875-1967)
  • Medieval Europe
  • Mineral contraceptives and abortifacients
  • Modernity and falling birthrates
  • Mothers' clinic and its successors
  • National birth control league
  • Native Americans of California
  • Neo-Malthusians
  • Nineteenth-century fertility trends in England and the United States
  • Noyes, John Humphrey (1811-1886)
  • Onanism
  • Opponents of birth control and abortion in the nineteenth century
  • Oral contraceptives
  • Owen, Robert Dale (1801-1877)
  • Pessary
  • Physiology of reproduction
  • Pincus, Gregory Goodwin (1903-1967)
  • Place, Francis (1771-1854)
  • Plastic wrap
  • Polygamy
  • Polygyny and sex ratios
  • Population control and organization
  • Pregnancy potential
  • Protestantism in the sixteenth and seventeenth century
  • Quickening
  • Robinson, William Josephus (1867-1936)
  • RU 486
  • Sanger, Margaret Louise (Higgins) (1879-1966)
  • Self-help literature in the nineteenth century
  • Serena
  • Social purity movement
  • Spermicides
  • Sponges, tampons, and vaginal inserts
  • Sterile period (Rhythm method)
  • Sterilization
  • Stone, Hannah (1893-1941)
  • Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880-1941)
  • United States v. One package
  • Vaginal rings
  • Violence against abortion providers
  • Voluntary parenthood league
  • Witchcraft, contraception and abortion
  • Women and the control of reproduction
  • Yarros, Rachelle
  • Slobodinsky (1869-1964)
  • World survey of birth control practices
Subject headings
Birth control--Encyclopedias. Contraception--Encyclopedias.
Medical subjects
Contraception Contraception Behavior Contraceptive Devices Contraceptive Agents Abortion, Induced
Genre heading
Encyclopedia.
ISBN
1576071812 (alk. paper) 9781576071816 (alk. paper) 1576075338 (e-book) 9781576075333 (e-book)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
X4904340 copy 1
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute
Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
X4904340|copy 2
Location
Kinsey Institute Library - Stacks