John Riddle

John Riddle is a professor of history at North Carolina State University and a specialist in the history of medicine.

He is best known for advancing the view that women in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period deliberately used herbal abortifacients as a means of fertility regulation. [cite book|last=Riddle|first=John|title=Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1992|isbn=0674168763] [ cite journal | last = Van de Walle| first = Etienne| authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1997| month = | title = Flowers, fruits: two thousand years of menstrual regulation | journal = Journal of Interdisciplinary History | volume = 28| issue =2 | pages =182–203 | id = | url = | accessdate = 2008-05-24 | quote = ]

Published works

*"Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
*"Quid pro quo: Studies in the History of Drugs" (Aldershot: Variorum, 1992)
*"Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)
*"A History of the Middle Ages, 300-1500" (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)

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