1787 DENMAN, Thomas (1733 – 1815)
A collection of engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species.
An idiosyncratic collection of rarely reproduced images with explanatory commentaries in English and French, concerning reproduction and obstetric complications in animals and humans. Topics include: The Funis of a nu…
GMN 12163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14373
1834 GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (1783 – 1872)
Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.
Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 14017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16324
1844 HALMAGRAND, Charles-Nicolas (1803 – 1892)
Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15888
1847 LOHMAN, Ann Trow (Madam Restell) (1812 – 1878); LOHMAN, Charles M.
The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…
GMN 13469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15743
1856 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.
Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…
GMN 13687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15969
1864 HODGE, Hugh Lenox (1796 – 1873)
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completion of aborti…
GMN 6185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7519
1872 VAN DE WARKER, Edward Ely (1841 – 1910)
The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15431
1901 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
L'Avortement
GMN 9904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12092
1939 HOOKER, Davenport (1887 – 1965)
A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.
The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…
GMN 14053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16363
1955 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
GMN 9103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11282
1978 MOHR, James C.
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
GMN 7999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10175
1982 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – ); HERRMANN, Walter; WYSS, Rolf; RIONDEL, Anne M.; ET AL
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
GMN 12469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14702
1985 CARRICK, Paul (1946 – )
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
GMN 8123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10299
1990 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – )
Génération pilule.
Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
GMN 12468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14701
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
GMN 7043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9210
1994 BRODIE, Janet Farrell
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12490
1997 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
GMN 7722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9894
1998 REAGAN, Leslie J.
When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.
GMN 8646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10823
2005 BLAZER, Shraga; ZIMMER, Etan Z.
The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.
Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…
GMN 12556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14795
2017 BERER, Marge
Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.
Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link.
GMN 12467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14700
2020 ZIEGLER, Mary
Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.
GMN 13537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15814
