Edward Bliss Foote
Born(1829-02-20)February 20, 1829
Cleveland, Ohio
DiedOctober 5, 1906(1906-10-05) (aged 77)
Larchmont, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAuthor
Known forFree Speech League

Edward Bliss Foote (February 20, 1829 – October 5, 1906) was an American medical doctor, writer, and advocate for birth control.[1][2][3]

Biography

Edward Bliss Foote was born in Cleveland on February 20, 1829.[4]

In 1858, he 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.

He died in Larchmont, New York on October 5, 1906.[6]

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Plain home talk about the human system, 1896

References

  1. ^ Cirillo VJ. (1973) Edward Bliss Foote: pioneer American advocate of birth control. Bull Hist Med. 1973 Sep-Oct;47(5):471-9.
  2. ^ Foote, Edward Bliss. American national biography. v. 8 (1999)
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. IV. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ a b 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. JSTOR 1228985.
  6. ^ "Died" (PDF). The New York Times. October 6, 1906. p. 9. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
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