The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution
Author:   Margaret Marsh (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) ,  Wanda Ronner
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9780801890017


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   26 December 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Margaret Marsh (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) ,  Wanda Ronner
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780801890017


ISBN 10:   0801890012
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   26 December 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Family Matters 2. Choosing Medicine, Coming of Age 3. New Discoveries in Human Reproduction 4. Firing the First Shot in the Reproductive Revolution 5. The World of the Patients 6. The Fertility Doctor Meets the Pill 7. The Era of the Pill Begins 8. The Face and Voice of the Pill 9. The Pill Falls from Grace 10. A True Visionary Acknowledgments Notes Index

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A fascinating biographical study of a key figure in twentieth-century America... a complete portrait of John Rock as a son, brother, husband, father, student, doctor, researcher, and public figure. - Elizabeth Siegal Watkins, author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970


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Margaret Marsh is a professor of history and interim chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden. Wanda Ronner is a clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. They are coauthors of The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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