Eve's Herbs: History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
by J M Riddle
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780674270268
ISBN: 0674270266
Label: Harvard University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1999-05-05
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Studio: Harvard University Press
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Summary: Enlightening, raises important questions
Comment: This book presents information that could turn out to be important for theories of demographic change.
If it is accurate that knowledge about methods of contraception and abortion are not a recent discovery but have been widespread among ancient peoples (which makes sense to me), some important questions arise:
(1) how do we explain the christian-european ignorance of, even rejection of contraception and abortion that was commonplace in the euro-american world until into the 60ies? When and how did this basic human knowledge about contraception and abortion practices disappear and how might this have contributed to the steep growth of the european population in early modern times? Riddle offers some interesting answers here: he interprets the witch trials of early modern times as a strategy against specialists in matters of contraception and abortion (many midwifes were labeled witches and burned).
(2) how do we explain the surprisingly high birth rates in many socalled "development countries" and especially in the islamic world that some american strategists see as one of the major background factors of terrorism ("youth bulge")'--- how is this correlated with the history of knowledge about contraception and abortion in these countries?
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