Facets

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

2013 CE

#10774

Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.

Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…

1963 CE

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1897 CE

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2001 CE–2013 CE

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

2008 CE

#10635

Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)

A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.

2017 CE

#11038

Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1977 CE

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

2004 CE

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.