Prince Albert Morrow (December 19, 1846 – March 17, 1913) was an American dermatologist, venereologist,[1] social hygienist, and early campaigner for sex education.
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| Born | Prince Albert Morrow December 19, 1846 Mount Vernon, Christian County, Kentucky |
| Died | March 17, 1913 (aged 66) New York, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, educator |
| Spouse |
Lucy Bibb Slaughter (m. 1874) |
| Children | 6 |
Biography edit
Prince A. Morrow was born in Mount Vernon, Christian County, Kentucky on December 19, 1846. He married Lucy Bibb Slaughter in 1874, and they had six children.[2]
Morrow founded the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, the first Social Hygiene association in the United States, in New York City on February 9, 1905.[3] In 1910, this organization joined with various other Social Hygiene association across the country to create the American Federation for Sex Hygiene with Morrow as president.[4][5][6] During the 1890s, he opposed plans for the annexation of Hawaii on grounds its population had high rate of leprosy.[7]
He died at his home in Manhattan on March 17, 1913.[8]
Works (partial list) edit
- Drug Eruptions: A Clinical Study on the Irritant Effects of Drugs upon the Skin (1887)
- Atlas of Skin and Venereal Diseases (1889)
- (ed.) A System of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilology and Dermatology (1893)
- Social Diseases and Marriage (1904)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Page 119 "Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History" 1992
- ^ Watson, Irving A., ed. (1896). Physicians and Surgeons of America: A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Concord, New Hampshire: Republican Press Association. pp. 449–450. Retrieved March 17, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Maurice A. Bigelow, Sex-Education: A Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex and Its Relation to Human Life (The Macmillan Company, 1916) p. 227
- ^ History of Social Hygiene 1850-1930. American Social Hygiene Association. 1930. pp. 1–6.
- ^ Pivar, David (2002). Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. Westport: Greenwood Press. pp. 5–15, 25–27.
- ^ Steps in the Development of the A.S.H.A. American Social Hygiene Association. 1922. pp. 1–5.
- ^ "Leprosy and Hawaiian Annexation" North American Review, vol. 165 (1897) pp. 582-590.
- ^ "Dr. Prince A. Morrow, Sex Hygienist, Dead". The Evening World. March 18, 1913. p. 9. Retrieved March 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
External links edit
- Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived October 22, 2006)
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