Prince Albert Morrow (December 19, 1846–January 1, 1913) was an American dermatologist, venereologist,[1] social hygienist, and early campaigner for sex education.

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. [2] 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.[3][4][5] During the 1890s, he opposed plans for the annexation of Hawaii on grounds its population had high rate of leprosy.[6]

Works (partial list)

  • 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

References

  1. ↑ Page 119 "Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History" 1992
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ History of Social Hygiene 1850-1930. American Social Hygiene Association. 1930. pp. 1–6.
  4. ↑ Pivar, David (2002). Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. Westport: Greenwood Press. pp. 5–15, 25–27.
  5. ↑ Steps in the Development of the A.S.H.A. American Social Hygiene Association. 1922. pp. 1–5.
  6. ↑ "Leprosy and Hawaiian Annexation" North American Review, vol. 165 (1897) pp. 582-590.


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