William J. Robinson

William Josephus Robinson (December 8, 1867 – January 6, 1936) was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate. He was Chief of the department of Genito-Urinary Diseases at Bronx Hospital Dispensary, and editor of the American Journal of Urology and Sexology.[1] Robinson was active in the birth control movement in the United States.[2] 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".[3]

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.[4]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Robinson (1929), author description on title page
  2. ↑ Engelman, Peter, A History of the Birth Control Movement in America, 2011, pp. 35–37
  3. ↑ 'Robinson, William Josephus', in Vern L. Bullough, ed., Encyclopedia of birth control, p. 229
  4. ↑ Alois Payer, Religionskritisches von William Josephus Robinson
  5. 1 2 3 Reprinted in Gary Schmidgall, Conserving Walt Whitman's fame: selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, University of Iowa Press, 2006.
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