Norman Edwin Himes (1899–1949) was an American sociologist and economist and Professor at

Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theologi ...

, known for his work on the medical history of

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. Himes obtained his PhD from

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in 1932. After graduation, he started his academic career at

in 1932. In World War II he served at the

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. His research interests were in the field of "population problems, history of contraception and the birth control movement, and marriage and family relations."Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949
at socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu.

Selected publications

*''The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature'', John Day (1932) * Himes, Norman Edwin, and Christopher Tietze. ''Medical history of contraception.'' Vol. 657. New York: Gamut Press, 1936, 1963. * Himes, Norman Edwin, and Donald Lavor Taylor. ''Your marriage.'' Rinehart, 1955. ;Selected articles * Himes, Norman E.
The place of John Stuart Mill and of Robert Owen in the history of English neo-Malthusianism
" ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' (1928): 627–640. * Himes, Norman E.
Essays on population and other papers by James Alfred Field, together with material from his notes and lectures compiled and edited by Helen Fisher Hohman, with a foreword by James Bonar, LL. D.
''The Eugenics Review'' 23.3 (1931): 258-261: On the work of James A. Field. * Himes, Norman E. "Birth control in historical and clinical perspective." ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' (1932): 49–65.

References

External links

Norman E. Himes papers, 1918-1956 (inclusive), 1925-1950 (bulk). B MS c77. Boston Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
1899 births 1949 deaths Economists from New York (state) American sociologists Harvard University alumni Colgate University faculty 20th-century American economists {{US-economist-stub