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Contraception : a history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists / John T. Noonan, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noonan, John Thomas, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth control--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines.
- Birth control.
- Contraception--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines.
- Contraception.
- Physical Description:
- 581 p.
- Edition:
- Enl. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1965, Contraception received unanimous acclaim from all quarters as the first thorough, scholarly, objective analysis of Catholic doctrine on birth control. More than ever this subject is of acute concern to a world facing serious population problems, and the author has written an important new appendix examining the development of and debates over the doctrine in the past twenty years.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Shaping of the doctrine, 50-450
- pt. 2. The condemnation ingrained, 450-1450
- pt. 3. Innovation and preservation, 1450-1750
- pt. 4. Development and controversy, 1750-1965.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-07026-7
- OCLC:
- 1129181081
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