An investigation into the ancient abortion laws: Comparing ancient persia with ancient Greece and Rome;Usporedba drevnih zakona o abortusu perzije, Grčke i Rima

AMHA - Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-298

  Yarmohammadi, Hassan ^a,b   Zargaran, Arman ^c   Vatanpour, Azadeh ^d   Abedini, Ehsan ^a   Adhami, Siamak ^e  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Ancient Persia; History of medicine; Human rights

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ILLEGAL ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION; IRAN; LEGAL ABORTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ABORTION, CRIMINAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, LEGAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GREEK WORLD; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PERSIA; PREGNANCY; ROMAN WORLD;

EID: 84889633607     PISSN: 13344366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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