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creators_name: Tarrant, Neil
title: John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press,  2021.  368 pp.
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divisions: UCL
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divisions: C03
divisions: F28
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abstract: In this work, John Christopoulos draws on a range of perspectives from medical, social, religious, and legal history to offer a rich, engaging, and detailed account of the history of abortion in early modern Italy. Handling his subject matter with care and sensitivity, he reconstructs how early modern Italians thought about and responded to women’s bodies and the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, stillbirth, and abortion. The latter category, Christopoulos explains, encompassed not only the deliberate termination of pregnancy, but also situations in which the pregnancy was ended by accident or by violence inflicted by another party. The book is structured around three main chapters which respectively treat the themes of medical, religious, and legal responses to abortion. They are each separated by a short story drawn from the archives that provides a case study to illustrate the themes of the foregoing chapter.
date: 2022-10
date_type: published
publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrac036
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type: review
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elements_id: 2309435
doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrac036
lyricists_name: Tarrant, Neil
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actors_name: Tarrant, Neil
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actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
volume: 77
number: 4
pagerange: 477-478
pages: 2
issn: 0022-5045
citation:        Tarrant, Neil;      (2022)    John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 368 pp.           [Review].        Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , 77  (4)   pp. 477-478.    10.1093/jhmas/jrac036 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas%2Fjrac036>.       Green open access   
 
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