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Disciplining reproduction : modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex"
- Title
- Disciplining reproduction : modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" / Adele E. Clarke.
- Author
- Clarke, Adele E.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | QP251 .C56 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 421 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Reproduction > Research > History > United States > 20th century
- Reproductive technology > Social aspects
- Sex (Biology) > Research > History > United States > 20th century
- Life sciences > Research > History > United States > 20th century
- Women > Health and hygiene
- Animal breeding
- Reproduction > 20th Century
- Reproductive Techniques
- Biological Science Disciplines > history > 20th Century
- Women
- Health
- Hygiene
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-410) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Framing the American Reproductive Sciences -- 2. Situating the Reproductive Sciences -- 3. Forming the Discipline: Physiological Approaches, 1910-25 -- 4. Seizing the Means of Studying Reproduction: The NRC Committee on Problems of Sex -- 5. Coalescing the Discipline: Endocrinological Approaches, 1925-40 -- 6. Negotiating the Contraceptive Quid pro Quo: Birth Control Advocates and Reproductive Scientists, 1910-63 -- 7. Funding the Reproductive Sciences -- 8. Illegitimate Science: Reproducing Controversy -- 9. Disciplining Reproduction in Modernity -- App. 1. Historiographic and Methodological Note -- App. 2. On the National Research Council Committee for Research in Problems of Sex.
- ISBN
- 0520207203 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97001114
- OCLC
- 36430568
- ocm36430568
- SCSB-4787960
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries