The fertility doctor
Subtitle: John Rock and the reproductive revolution
By: Margaret Marsh, Wanda Ronner.
Contributors: Ronner, Wanda.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780801890017
Subjects: Rock, John Charles, -- 1890-1984; Rock, John Charles, -- 1890-1984; Gynecologists -- United States -- Biography; Oral contraceptives -- United States -- History; Oral contraceptives -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Human reproductive technology -- United States -- History; Infertility -- Treatment -- United States -- History; Reproductive health -- United States -- History; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Contraceptive Agents -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Reproductive Medicine -- history -- United States; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- history -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Family matters; title: Choosing medicine, coming of age; title: New discoveries in human reproduction; title: Firing the first shot in the reproductive revolution; title: The world of the patients; title: The fertility doctor meets the pill; title: The era of the pill begins; title: "As handsome as a god"; title: "Let's be honest about the pill"; title: A true visionary.