Contraception: A History
- ISBN-10
- 0745632718
- ISBN-13
- 9780745632711
- Series
- Contraception
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-05-12
- Publisher
- Polity
- Author
- Robert Jütte
Description
Surveying one of the oldest and most urgent problems of mankind, contraception, this book tells of how, over the centuries, men and women have battled with the needs both for sexual gratification and for limitation of offspring, and also focuses on how contraception might evolve in the future.
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- 2015-12-07
- 735 pages
- Paperback
- Elsevier Health Sciences
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