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Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman (review)

various aspects of Rock’s research on women subjects as ambiguous ethically or as completely ungoverned by ethical standards of the Free Hospital but as irrelevant to their biographical history. This book contributes to our understanding of a complex time in medical science and research in female reproduction, fertility, and infertility. Much information comes through a careful history. Still, unanswered questions abound. For instance, did this medical history truly anticipate the separation of reproduction from sexuality? What is the significance of race in this story? Arguing that John Rock expressed gross racial stereotypes about groups but not individuals (that is, his patients), the authors dismiss the most significant facet of his racial bias. John Rock never got rich from his practice, and he meant well, yet he had limitations in understanding and controlling the scope of what he agreed or chose to do. Marsh and Ronner also strongly criticize the work of the late Barbara Seaman and the women’s health movement in their redemption of Rock. Their evidence is sound, but it is a context deserving more attention. While Seaman may have misunderstood Rock and some parts of the field trials, in particular, the structure of the control groups, she rightly questioned the ethics of the trials and spoke for women to gain control of women’s medicine. Control of reproduction and power go hand in hand with and result in reproductive politics tending to rob women of control over their own well-being. Her work continues to good effect in the National Women’s Health Network. After reading this book, we still search to know the extent of the “bad side effects” from the Puerto Rico trials.