Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

Name: Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question
Author: Charles Knowlton

by Charles Knowlton

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by David Widger

Release date

2011-12-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Birth control Malthusianism

About the author

Charles Knowlton

1800–1850

A nineteenth-century physician and reformer, he is best remembered for challenging social taboos with one of the earliest American books on birth control. His life mixed small-town medical practice with fierce public controversy, leaving a legacy that reached far beyond his own era.

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