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Women doctors and contraception

Caroline Rusterholz: Women's medicine. Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920–70. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, xi + 263 pp, £25.00 HB

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Ortiz-Gómez, T. Women doctors and contraception. Metascience 31, 373–377 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00774-0

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