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The subtitle of this chapter relates not only to an article by Djerassi1 on the probable state of the art of contraceptive development by the year 1984, but even more to the intellectual nightmare so ably depicted by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four 2.
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Diczfalusy, E. (1985). Contraceptive futurology: or 1984 in 1984. In: Runnebaum, B., Rabe, T., Kiesel, L. (eds) Future Aspects in Contraception. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4916-4_31
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