William Josephus Robinson
William Josephus Robinson (8 December 1867 – 6 January 1936) was an American physician, sexologist and birth control campaigner. He was "the first American physician to demand that contraceptive knowledge be taught to medical students and [...] probably the most influential and popular of the American physicians writing on birth control in the first three decades of the twentieth century".[1]
As well as his own medical writings, Robinson edited the works of the pioneering pediatrician Abraham Jacobi. He was also a freethinking critic of Christianity.[2]
Works
- (ed.) Dr. Jacobi's works. Collected essays, addresses, scientific papers and miscellaneous writings of A. Jacobi, 1909
- Never-told tales,1909
- (with Leo Jacobi and others) Sex morality: past present and future, 1912. Online here. Reviewed by Horace Traubel, The Conservator 23:73 (July 1912).[3]
- Sexual problems of today, 1912. Reviewed by Horace Traubel, The Conservator 23:139 (November 1912).[3]
- 'Walt Whitman and sex', The Conservator 24:53 (June 1913).[3]
- A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of sexual impotence and other sexual disorders in men and women, 1913
- The treatment of gonorrhea and its complications in men and women, for the general practitioner, 1915
- Fewer and better babies, birth control; or, The limitation of offspring by prevenception, 1916
- Woman: her sex and love life, 1917
- Sexual truths versus sexual lies, misconceptions and exaggerations, 1919
- A doctor's view on life, 1927. Edited by Eden and Cedar Paul.
- Sex, love and morality : a rational code of sexual ethics based upon the highest principle of morality--the principle of human happiness; the last word on the subject, 1928
- Practical prevenception; or, The technique of birth control; giving the latest methods of prevention of conception, discussing their effect, favorable or unfavorable, on the sex act; their indications and contra-indications, pointing out the reasons for failures and how to avoid them. For the medical profession only, 1929
- The oldest profession in the world; prostitution, its underlying causes, its treatment and its future, 1929
- If I were God: a freethinker's faith, incorporating a discussion between the author and a Catholic priest, New York: The Freethought Press Association, 1930. With an introduction by Harry Elmer Barnes. Online at the Internet Archive.
- Soviet Russia as I saw it; its crimes and stupidities, 1932
- Happiness and how to attain it, 1933
- Medical and sex dictionary, 1933
- The law against abortion; its perniciousness demonstrated and its repeal demanded, 1933
- Our mysterious life glands and how they affect us. A popular treatise on our glands and their secretions - what they do to us, how they affect our health, growth, appearance, temper, mentality, and character; including the vitamins, 1934
References
- ^ 'Robinson, William Josephus', in Vern L. Bullough, ed., Encyclopedia of birth control, p.229
- ^ Alois Payer, Religionskritisches von William Josephus Robinson
- ^ a b c Reprinted in Gary Schmidgall, Conserving Walt Whitman's fame: selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, University of Iowa Press, 2006.
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8 December 1867 |
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6 January 1936 |
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