Books of Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control
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Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
By Francis BeckwithThe author explains and responds to ethical and philosophical arguments used to defend a pro-choice position. Key court decisions are also critiqued.
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The Economics of the Family
By Nancy FolbreThis collection of essays features debate among neoclassical, institutionalist and feminist theorists, providing an invaluable guide to the evolution of economic approaches to the family. The clash of paradigms illuminates...
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The Right to Lifers: Who They Are, how They Operate, where They Get Their Money
By Connie PaigeAn in-depth examination of the "Right to Life" movement analyzes its strengths, weaknesses, political bases, and strategies, identifies its dominant leaders, ideologues, and financial backers, and assesses its political power
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The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution
By Margaret Marsh, Wanda RonnerAs Louise Brown—the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization—celebrates her 30th birthday, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner tell the fascinating story of the man who first showed that human...
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Who Chooses?: American Reproductive History Since 1830
By Simone M. CaronIn 1860, the American Medical Association launched a campaign to convince state legislatures to prohibit abortions. Until 1973's Roe v. Wade, abortion was often seen as a crime. Who Chooses?...
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Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America
By Linda GordonBy 1850, most contraceptive methods and abortion were illegal in America. But in the late 19th century, American women began demanding the right to prevent or terminate pregnancy. Gordon traces...
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Split Decision
By Leonard A. SharkeyThis is the true story of Leonard and Irene Sharkey, who are faced with a pregnancy that threatens Irene's life. In the early 1970s, the law in Michigan prevented doctors...
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Pregnancy as a Disease: The Pill in Society
By Donald H. MerkinPregnancy as a Disease: The Pill in Society
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Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America
By Linda GordonBy 1850, most contraceptive methods and abortion were illegal in America. But in the late 19th century, American women began demanding the right to prevent or terminate pregnancy. Gordon traces...
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Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives
By Deborah Eade, Haleh AfsharDevelopment in Practice Readers draw on the contents of the acclaimed international journal Development in Practice. They offer thematic collections of papers by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and activists. Each...
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The Selling of Contraception: The Dalkon Shield Case, Sexuality, and Women's Autonomy
By Nicole J. GrantIn this brutal indictment of the birth control industry, Nicole J. Grant documents the history of the Dalkon Shield case and places the controversy within a larger historical and social...
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and Contraceptive Choice
By Betsy HartmannLooks at government population policies in the U.S., China, and South America, discusses family planning, contraception, and sterilization, and examines the political, economic, and social consequences.
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Contraception: A Guide to Birth Control Methods : Condoms, Spermicides, Diaphragms, Sterilization, Natural Family Planning, the Pill
By Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie BulloughThe book that Library Journal considers "one of the best popular medical books for public libraries" is now better and even more informative than ever! It's the most convenient, concise,...
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Abortion and Infanticide
By Hunt, Michael Tooley, TooleyThe book has two main concerns. The first is to isolate the fundamental issues that must be resolved if one is to be able to formulate a defensible position on...
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The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy
By James Trefil, Harold J. MorowitzThe question of whether abortion should or should not be permitted, and under what circumstances, is among the most difficult and sometimes anguished decisions for contemporary men and women. How...
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African-American Humanism: An Anthology
By Norm R. AllenThis collection demonstrates the strong influence that humanism and freethought had in developing the history and ideals of black intellectualism. Most people are quick to note the profound influence...
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世界人口经济史
By 李仲生著本书作为国家重点学科劳动经济学专项资金资助出版的研究成果，从人口经济学的角度，以自人类起源至当代世界人口波动和经济发展的历史脉络为导线，注重分析世界人口增加对经济发展的影响，同时研究人口转变的经济因素以及人口现象与经济现象的相互关系等，是以人类诞生以来世界的人口与经济发展的综合关系作为研究对象的。就方法论而言，本书在分析发展中国家的人口经济问题时采用了从微观到宏观、从短期到长期、从静态到动态、从统计的实证分析到计量的经济分析的方法。本书内容丰富，涉及面广，结构严谨，力求创新，在一定程度上弥补了人口经济学领域的某些空白，促进了世界人口经济史方面的研究，在理论与实践上具有一定的学术价值和创新性，可供人口经济学、经济学等方面的研究人员、学生和实际工作者学习参考。
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Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America
By Janet Farrell BrodieIn pocket-sized, coded diaries, an upper-middle-class American woman named Mary Poor recorded with small "x's" the occasions of sexual intercourse with her husband Henry over a twenty-eight-year period. Janet Farrell...
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Questioni di bioetica: la sterilità e la procreazione medicalmente assistita
By Isabella Rauti, Patrizia SiliprandiQuestioni di bioetica: la sterilità e la procreazione medicalmente assistita
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Sex and the Population Crisis: An Endocrinologist's View of the 20th Century
By John Alexander LoraineSex and the Population Crisis: An Endocrinologist's View of the 20th Century