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By John M. Riddle. 245 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1992. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-16875-5.
Edited by Regine Sitruk-Ware and C. Wayne Bardin. 228 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1992. $99.75. ISBN 0-8247-8700-5.

These two books approach the topic of birth control from very different perspectives. Riddle's work represents a historian's sweep over some millennia; that of Sitruk-Ware and Bardin presents the views of 27 scientists focused on just a few decades. Not surprisingly, the single-author format of the historian's review is stylistically more attractive, whereas the multiauthored book ranges all the way from pithy, well-formulated reviews to verbose, journal-type boilerplate. But the same question can be asked about both books: Who are the intended readers?

Riddle's survey, with 64 pages of notes and references, will be useful to historians of birth control . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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