Episode 49: The History of Birth Control

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  • Noonan, J. T. (1986). Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by Catholic Theologians and Canonists. Harvard University Press.

  • Hopkins, K. (1965). Contraception in the Roman Empire. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 8(1), 124–151.

  • Ogden, D. (2002). Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Source Book. In Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.

  • Riddle, J. M. (1997). Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West . John. Harvard University Press.

  • John M. Riddle. (1994). Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Harvard University Press.

  • Norman R. Farnsworth, Audrey S. Bingel, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Frank A. Crane, and Harry H. S. Fong, (1975)“Potential Value of Plants as Sources of New Antifertility Agents,” Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 64 : 552 [pt. 1: 535-598; pt. 2: 717-754]; 

  • Adelina de S. Matsui, Somsong Hoskin, Midori Kashiwagi, Bonnie W. Aguda, Barbara E. Zegart, T. R. Norton, and W. C. Cutting, (1971) “A Survey of Natural Products from Hawaii and Other Areas of the Pacific for an Antifertility Effect in Mice,” Internationale Zeitschrift fiir klinische Pharmakologie, Therapie und Toxikologie 1 : 65-69 at 66.  

  • C. D. Casey,(1960) “Alleged Anti-fertility Plants of India,” Indian Journal of Medical Sciences 14 : 590-600 at 597; 

  • R. N. Chopra, S. L. Nayar, and I. C. Chopra, (1956) Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants (New Delhi), p. 220; 

  • Carmen Ciganda M.D. & Amalia Laborde M.D. (2003) Herbal Infusions Used for Induced Abortion, Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 41:3, 235-239, DOI: 10.1081/CLT-120021104

  • Aubert, Jean-Jacques. (1989) "Threatened wombs: aspects of ancient uterine magic." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 30.3: 421-449.

  • Gaimster, D., Boland, P., Linnane, S., & Cartwright, C. (1996). The archaeology of private life: The dudley castle condoms. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 30(1), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.1179/pma.1996.003

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