#American #physician whose popular treatise on #birthcontrol, the object of celebrated court acti…
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#American #physician whose popular treatise on #birthcontrol, the object of celebrated court actions in the U.S. and England, initiated the widespread use of #contraceptives.
Anonymously published, his book #TheFruitsofPhilosophy: or The Private Companion of Young Married Peoplewas the first on the subject in the U.S. Despite an otherwise appropriate discussion of the #medical, #social, and #economic aspects of birth control, he so offended the public taste of the times that he was #prosecuted in the U.S., fined (1832) and #imprisoned for three months.
In England he was aquitted in what became a famous test case. Subsequently, the book sales rose from 1,000 to 250,000 a year.
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