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cover of 'Pushback' by Mary Fissell

Women's Issue

Published Spring 2025

In 'Pushback', Professor Mary Fissell traces the history of abortion back over two millennia / Johns Hopkins Magazine

History of medicine

Sex in the 18th century

Published Summer 2014

'Aristotle's Masterpiece,' a popular sex and pregnancy manual published in 1684, was neither by nor about Aristotle / Johns Hopkins Magazine