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Reading between the lines: A critical history of contraception

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There are numerous books and articles about the general history of contraception or its most salient episodes and characters. The majority are written in an epic its actors are conveyed as heroes who struggled to overcome the tenacious prejudices with which society, religion and the medical establishment rejected contraception. That flattering literature needs to be compensated by a critical story, not simply antagonistic and reactive, as is usually published from the anti-contraception front. Our goal is thus to share with readers a well-documented account of little-known or silenced events about the activities and mentalities of the birth control movement.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2020

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March 5, 2024
Un libro interesante, que desvela algunos datos por primera vez, y que ofrece una visión de conjunto del proceso que llevó a hacer los anticonceptivos moralmente aceptables, además de legales. Sigue una perspectiva eminentemente historiográfica y circunscrita a Estados Unidos, mediante una revisión amplísima de la literatura, de muy diversa índole, que incluye los ensayos clínicos que se llevaron a cabo desde mediados del siglo pasado, hasta la correspondencia publicada de los principales personajes de esta ominosa cruzada.
Un libro algo técnico y, a mi juicio, no pensado como primera aproximación a la historia de la anticoncepción.
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