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Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967: Medicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture de Violetta Hionidou

Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967: Medicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

Autor Violetta Hionidou
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mai 2021
The 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.

    
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030414924
ISBN-10: 3030414922
Pagini: 361
Ilustrații: XIX, 361 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1 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.

Recenzii

“Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece is a work of enormous breadth and depth that will reward anyone interested in the biopolitical technologies, knowledges, and practices that helped shape the specific history of Greece’s population since the establishment of the modern Greek state.” (Eugenia Georges, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 39 (2), October, 2021)
“This well-researched and erudite book is also a thoroughly engaging read. ... it will appeal to social, cultural and demographic historians as well as medical professionals. … By setting out such a well-rounded account of fertility decline and the evolution of birth control in Greece, Hionidou has thrown down a gauntlet to researchers elsewhere to broaden their perspectives and take a fresh look at fertility-related behaviour during their country’s first demographic transition.” (Eilidh Garrett, Continuity and Change, Vol. 36, 2021)

Notă biografică

Violetta Hionidou is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Newcastle University, UK. She has taught at Southampton University, UK, Crete University, Greece and has recently held the visiting Research Fellowship at the Seeger Centre for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, USA. She is the author of Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941–1944 and co-winner of the 2007 Edmund Keeley Book Prize. She has received funding from the European Union, the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation.


       

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The 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.

Caracteristici

Winner of the 2022 European Society for Historical Demography Tamara Harevan Award Explores the reasons why abortion came to play a central role in Greece’s fertility decline Brings together popular culture and medical testimony to offer new insights into cultural and medical perspectives on birth control and abortion Shows that medical and popular methods that were used in the pre-decline period to treat, among other conditions, sterility were subsequently repurposed into birth control methods