A Study of Abortion in Primitive Societies: A Typological, Distributional, and Dynamic Analysis of the Prevention of Birth in 400 Preindustrial Societies

by George Devereux

A typological analysis of practices and attitudes pertaining to abortion in preindustrial societies, arguing the universal validity of exhaustive psychoanalytic study, in full context, of a particular practice in one society

414 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

George Devereux (born György Dobó) was an American - French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, born in a Jewish family from Banat. He was one of the pioneers of ethnopsychoanalysis and ethnopsychiatry.