Uncontrolled desires: The response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960

Journal of American History

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 83-106

  Freedman, Estelle B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; SEX BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0023459494     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: 19452314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1908506     Document Type: Article

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