LEADER 04452nam 22006735 450 001 9910399872203321 005 20200630233444.0 010 $a3-030-41490-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-41490-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011232684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6199420 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-41490-0 035 $a(PPN)260935468 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011232684 100 $a20200515d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAbortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967 $eMedicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture /$fby Violetta Hionidou 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (371 pages) 225 1 $aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History 311 $a3-030-41489-2 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Fertility Trends, 1870-1967 -- 3 Involuntary Childlessness -- 4 Self Help: Emmenagogues and Abortifacients -- 5 The Physician's Method: Curettage -- 6 Abortion: Law and (Dis)Order, Physicians and Midwives -- 7 The Ethics of Abortion: Poverty and Stigma -- 8 Contraception and its Methods I: Natural Methods -- 9 Contraception and its Methods II: Appliances and the Pill -- 10 Physicians and their Role: 'Medicine is an Art Form' -- 11 Conclusions. 330 $aThe book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility decline and the question of whether the decline was due to adjustment to changing social conditions or innovation of contraceptive methods. The study reveals that all methods had been in use for other purposes before they were employed as contraceptives. For example, Greek women were employing emmenagogues well before fertility was controlled; they did so in order to ?put themselves right? and to enhance their fertility. When they needed to control their fertility, they employed abortifacients, some of which were also emmenagogues, while others had been used as expellants in earlier times. Curettage was also employed since the late nineteenth century as a cure for sterility; once couples desired to control their fertility curettage was employed to procure abortion. Thus couples did not need to innovate but rather had to repurpose old methods and materials to new birth control methods. Furthermore, the role of physicians was found to have been central in advising and encouraging the use of birth control for ?health? reasons, thus facilitating and speeding fertility decline in Greece. All this occurred against the backdrop of a state and a church that were at times neutral and at other times disapproving of fertility control. 410 0$aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History 606 $aEurope?History?1492- 606 $aMedicine?History 606 $aGender identity 606 $aSocial history 606 $aDemography 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080 606 $aHistory of Medicine$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H64000 606 $aGender and Sexuality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35010 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aDemography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X25000 615 0$aEurope?History?1492-. 615 0$aMedicine?History. 615 0$aGender identity. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aDemography. 615 14$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aGender and Sexuality. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aDemography. 676 $a363.46 676 $a900 700 $aHionidou$b Violetta$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0273674 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910399872203321 996 $aAbortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967$92168187 997 $aUNINA