Edward Bliss Foote

Edward Bliss Foote
Nationality American
Occupation Author
Known for Free Speech League

Edward Bliss Foote (20 February 1829 5 October 1906[1]) was an American doctor, author, and advocate for birth control.[2][3][4] In 1858, Foote published Medical Common Sense, which contained frank discussion of sexual health for the general public.[5] He was subsequently convicted under the Comstock Act and forced to remove information about birth control from the book.[5] He was a co-founder of the Free Speech League.

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Plain home talk about the human system, 1896.

References

  1. "Died.". The New York Times. October 6, 1906.
  2. Cirillo VJ. (1973) Edward Bliss Foote: pioneer American advocate of birth control. Bull Hist Med. 1973 Sep-Oct;47(5):471-9.
  3. Foote, Edward Bliss. American national biography. v. 8 (1999)
  4. Wood, Janice Ruth (2008) The struggle for free speech in the United States, 1872-1915 : Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and anti-Comstock operations, Routledge
  5. 1 2 Rabban DM (1992). "The Free Speech League, the ACLU, and Changing Conceptions of Free Speech in American History". Stanford Law Review 45 (1): 67–68. doi:10.2307/1228985.


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