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• Pregnancy -- Early works to 1800

• Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece, in Three Parts (17th edition, 1728), by Pseudo Aristotele (page images at NIH)
• The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher (the 1735 canon of this pseudonymous work), by Pseudo Aristotele (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)

• Aristotle's Compleat And Experienc'd Midwife (8th edition; London: Printed and sold by the booksellers, ca. 1740), by Pseudo Aristotele, ed. by William Salmon (page images at NIH)

• A Letter to a Lady on the Mode of Conducting Herself During Pregnancy; Also on the Management of the Infant (London: Printed by Baker and Galabin, 1777), by Sarah Brown (HTML at ECCO TCP)

• A Letter to a Lady on the Mode of Conducting Herself During Pregnancy; Also on the Management of the Infant (London: Printed by Baker and Galabin, 1777), by Sarah Brown (HTML at ECCO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Natural Philosophy of Love (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by Ezra Pound (Gutenberg text)
• Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel (in French; Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1903), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg text)
• Das Liebesleben in der Natur: Eine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Liebe (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1921), by Wilhelm Bölsche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Intracellular Pangenesis, Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization (Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1910), by Hugo de Vries, trans. by C. Stuart Gager (PDF files at esp.org)
• Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, by August Weismann, ed. by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schonland, and Arthur E. Shipley (PDF files at esp.org)

• Current Research on the Consequences of Maternal Drug Abuse, ed. by Theodore M. Pinkert (PDF files at NIH)

• Biological Mechanisms and Perinatal Exposure to Drugs, ed. by Pushpa Thadani (PDF at NIH)

• The Temple of Nature, or The Origin of Society: A Poem (annotated critical edition, based on the 1803 edition), by Erasmus Darwin, ed. by Martin Priestman (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Temple of Nature, or The Origin of Society: A Poem, With Philosophical Notes (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803), by Erasmus Darwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the "Problems of Sex" (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Adele E. Clarke (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• An Introduction to the Study of the Oestrous Cycle in the Dog (Memoirs of the University of California v9 #2; 1931), by Herbert M. Evans and H. H. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reproductive Biology of the Mare: Basic and Applied Aspects (second edition; Madison, WI: Department of Veterinary Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1992), by O. J. Ginther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Birth Control: Medicines to Help You (electronic edition, last updated 2016), by United States Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health (illustrated HTML at fda.gov)
• Male Continence, by John Humphrey Noyes
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at reuniting.info
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Preventive Obstacle, or, Conjugal Onanism: The Dangers and Inconveniences to the Individual, to the Family, and to Society, of Frauds in the Accomplishment of the Generative Functions (New York: Turner and Mignard, 1870), by Louis François Étienne Bergeret, trans. by P. de Marmon (multiple formats at Google)
• Laws Concerning Birth Control in the United States (c1929), by Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, contrib. by Margaret Sanger (page images at Harvard)
• Every Woman's Book: or, What is Love? (London: R. Carlile, 1828), by Richard Carlile (page images at LSE)

• Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future (1996), ed. by Polly F. Harrison and Allan Rosenfeld (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future (1996), ed. by Polly F. Harrison and Allan Rosenfeld (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World (1989), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Science and Babies: Private Decisions, Public Dilemmas (1990), by Suzanne Wymelenberg (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World (1989), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Forced Abortion and Sterilization in China, the View From the Inside: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 10, 1998, by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization, and Abortion: An Analysis of Laws and Policies in the United States, Each State and Jurisdiction (As of October 1, 1976 with 1978 Addenda) (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Community Health Services, 1978), by Alan Guttmacher Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sterilization in Hitler Germany (New York: Commission Investigating Fascist Activities, ca. 1934), by Benjamin Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Human Sterilization: The History of the Sexual Sterilization Movement (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Jacob Henry Landman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sterilization for Human Betterment: A Summary of Results of 6,000 Operations in California, 1909-1929 (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by E. S. Gosney and Paul Popenoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eugenic Sterilization in the United States: A Comparative Summary of Statutes and Review of Court Decisions (supplement #162 to the Public Health Reports; Washington: GPO, 1940), by James E. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922), by Harry Hamilton Laughlin, contrib. by Harry Olson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2013), by Sarah Franklin
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning (2002), by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices About Fertility Treatment (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Judith Steinberg Turiel (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Book for Midwives (revised edition, ca. 2005), by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, and Fiona Thomson (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• The Prospective Mother: A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy (1912), by J. Morris Slemons (Gutenberg text)
• The Book of Nature: Containing Information for Young People Who Think of Getting Married, on the Philosophy of Procreation and Sexual Intercourse, Showing How to Prevent Conception and to Avoid Child-Bearing; Also, Rules for Management During Labor and Child-Birth (New York: Wallis and Ashton, 1861), by James Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

• Techniques for Studying Nest Success of Ducks in Upland Habitats in the Prairie Pothole Region (1986), by Albert T. Klett, Harold F. Duebbert, Craig A. Faanes, and Kenneth F. Higgins (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Systematics and Reproduction of Bluetongue Lizards of the Genus Tiliqua (Squamata: Scincidae) (4 volumes; Sydney: Department of Veterinary Anatomy, 1992), by Glenn M. Shea (all volumes: PDF files at University of Sydney)

• An Introduction to the Study of the Oestrous Cycle in the Dog (Memoirs of the University of California v9 #2; 1931), by Herbert M. Evans and H. H. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing (first and second editions), by Charles Darwin (HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
  • page images at Google
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

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