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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Reed, James, 1944- From private vice to public virtue. New York : Basic Books, c1978 (OCoLC)654245834 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Reed |
| ISBN: | 046502582X 9780465025824 |
| OCLC Number: | 3205324 |
| Description: | xvi, 456 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Birth control before Margaret Sanger. Contraceptive technology in the nineteenth century ; The rise of the companionate family ; The suppression of contraceptive information ; The anarchists ; Permissiveness with affection: a sexual standard for an affluent society -- The woman rebel: Margaret Sanger and the struggle for clinics. The burden of domesticity ; European models ; Competition for leadership ; Providing clinics ; Woman and the new race -- Robert L. Dickinson and the committee on maternal health. The medical man as sex researcher ; Clinical studies ; Publisher and clearing house -- The prospect of depopulation. Birth control in American social science: 1870-1940 ; Birth control stalled ; The parents' information bureau -- Birth control entrepreneur: the philanthropic pathfinding of Clarence J. Gamble. A recruit for birth control ; Policing the marketplace ; Experiments in population control: Logan County, West Virginia, and the North Carolina Public Health Department ; Conflict and isolation -- Propagandists turned to prophets: birth control in a crowded world. The population explosion ; Margaret Sanger from exile: the founding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation ; The failure of simple methods: the IUD justified -- The pill. The prospects for hormonal sterilization ; A life in experimental biology ; The lady bountiful ; The product champion -- The trouble with family planning. |
| Responsibility: | James Reed. |
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