Birth control in nineteenth-century America: a view from three contemporaries

Yale J Biol Med. 1974 Dec;47(4):260-7.

Abstract

Social, philosophical and technical aspects of birth control in nineteenth-century America are examined through the lives and thoughts of three men who lived and worked at that time: John Humphrey Noyes, Anthony Comstock and Edward Bliss Foote.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Contraception / history*
  • Family Planning Services / history*
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • United States
  • Utopias

Personal name as subject

  • J H Noyes
  • A Comstock
  • E B Foote