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Author Wyndham, Diana, author

Title Norman Haire and the study of sex / Diana Wyndham
Published Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (485 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Contents Introduction : Norman Haire, a man of valour -- Early years -- Zions the scapegoat -- Haire the phoenix -- Making his mark -- Moving up in the world -- Organising the 1929 congress -- The darkening years -- Escalating troubles -- Mounting gloom on most fronts -- Haire's homecoming -- Dr Wykeham Terriss writes for Woman -- The ABC population debate -- Final years
Summary Norman Haire had always wanted to be an actor. Forced to study medicine, he followed his other passion: saving the world from sexual misery. When he arrived in London in 1919 he was a poor Jewish outsider from Australia. By 1930 he had a flourishing gynaecology practice in Harley Street, a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and a country house. His parties were attended by the medical, intellectual and cultural elite. As a prominent sexologist and a campaigner for birth control, Haire took a leading role in the world's first international conference on birth control in 1922 and organised, with Dora Russell, the World League for Sexual Reform's highly successful 1929 Congress in London. He lectured in America, Germany, France and Spain, and wrote and edited many accessible books on sex education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Haire, Norman, 1892-1952.
SUBJECT Haire, Norman, 1892-1952
Subject Sex educators -- Biography
Sexologists -- Biography
Gynecologists -- Biography
Physicians.
Physicians
Sex Education -- history
Sexual Behavior -- history
physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
Physicians
Gynecologists
Sex educators
Sexologists
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781743325780
1743325789
9781743320075
1743320078