Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

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Release Year
1997
ISBN
9780674270244
Book Title
Eve's Herbs : a History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Length
9.6 in
Publication Year
1997
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.4 in
Author
John M. Riddle
Genre
Health & Fitness, Social Science, History, Medical
Topic
Abortion & Birth Control, Women's Studies, Gynecology & Obstetrics, World, Herbal Medications
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Width
6.3 in
Number of Pages
348 Pages
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
067427024X
ISBN-13
9780674270244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038802575

Product Key Features

Book Title
Eve's Herbs : a History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
Number of Pages
348 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Abortion & Birth Control, Women's Studies, Gynecology & Obstetrics, World, Herbal Medications
Publication Year
1997
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Health & Fitness, Social Science, History, Medical
Author
John M. Riddle
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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LCCN
96-040383
Reviews
Eve's Herbs is a highly informative presentation of the history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents., Dr. Riddle demonstrates, as in his earlier Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, that knowledge about fertility control existed and women had access to it lost to them in modern times. Both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates will find these books important, instructive, and maybe prescriptive...A scholarly sleuth, Riddle permits historical texts to speak...Riddle integrates modern chemical, pharmacological, and medical confirmations that what the ancients said worked probably did., Riddle examines the use of plants as contraceptives, offering a fascinating view of the early knowledge of reproduction and attempts to regulate it., John Riddle has established his reputation as a leading expert on ancient Greek pharmacology. In an earlier study, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, he argued that a much more reliable knowledge of oral contraceptives existed in the ancient and medieval worlds than had previously been thought. In this book, Riddle attempts a broader but partly overlapping study, a history of abortion and contraception in the Western tradition (Europe and the United States, with a glance at the Islamic World). More specifically, he challenges the common view that oral contraception was little practiced and largely ineffective until the 18th century...Riddle argues his case with learning and perspicacity. He draws widely on the specialist literature of a number of disciplines as he discusses, among other things, the theology of ensoulment of the fetus and the demographics of early modern Europe., This fine scholarly book expands on Riddle's previous work, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, to discover why and how women's extensive knowledge and use of plants, herbs, seeds, bark, and roots was lost after the 19th century...Highly recommended for students of the history of medicine at all levels., Riddle is a tireless scholar and an engaging writer, and as his story moves along in chronological order, it begins to read like an official history. But at heart Eve's Herbs is just the opposite: a gathering of nervous confessions and forbidden secrets, committed to paper as proof of a hidden tradition. Like a covey of quail flushed from tall grass, these anguished facts burst from the page with startling life., Riddle's work is a useful counterbalance to extreme skepticism about the pre-modern possibility of effective fertility control.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
613.9/4
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Roe v. Wade 1. A Woman's Secret 2. The Herbs Known to Ancients 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge 7. The Womb as Public Territory 8. Eve's Herbs in Modern America Epilogue Notes Index
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
RG137.45.R53 1997

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