Norman Haire
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Norman Haire, born Norman Zions (21 January 1892, Sydney
– 11 September 1952, London
) was an Australian medical practitioner and sexologist. He has been called "the most prominent sexologist in Britain" between the wars.
, Zions took the name Haire and travelled to England. In 1920 he visited Berlin
, meeting Magnus Hirschfeld
. In London he became medical officer-in-charge of an early birth-control clinic, the Walworth Women's Welfare Centre. By 1925 he had established an expensive private practice in Harley Street
. He was secretary for the World League of Sexual Reform and organized its third congress in London in 1929.
Having popularised the Steinach
rejuvenation operation throughout the 1920s, Haire performed it on W. B. Yeats in 1934.
During the Second World War Haire returned to Australia
, where his advocacy of contraception made him the focus of controversy. He came back to London in 1946. In 1950, visiting the United States
, he suffered a heart attack from which he never fully recovered.
Haire's papers are held at the University of Sydney
Library.
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
– 11 September 1952, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
) was an Australian medical practitioner and sexologist. He has been called "the most prominent sexologist in Britain" between the wars.
Life
After studying medicine at the University of SydneyUniversity of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, Zions took the name Haire and travelled to England. In 1920 he visited Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, meeting Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which Dustin Goltz called "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."-Early life:Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in a...
. In London he became medical officer-in-charge of an early birth-control clinic, the Walworth Women's Welfare Centre. By 1925 he had established an expensive private practice in Harley Street
Harley Street
Harley Street is a street in the City of Westminster in London, England which has been noted since the 19th century for its large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery.- Overview :...
. He was secretary for the World League of Sexual Reform and organized its third congress in London in 1929.
Having popularised the Steinach
Eugen Steinach
Eugen Steinach was a leading Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology.-Biography:He was born on January 28, 1861 in Austria....
rejuvenation operation throughout the 1920s, Haire performed it on W. B. Yeats in 1934.
During the Second World War Haire returned to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, where his advocacy of contraception made him the focus of controversy. He came back to London in 1946. In 1950, visiting the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, he suffered a heart attack from which he never fully recovered.
Haire's papers are held at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
Library.
Works
- (with Margaret SangerMargaret SangerMargaret Higgins Sanger was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood...
) Hygienic methods of family limitation, London: The Malthusian League, [1922?] - (with Eden PaulEden PaulMaurice Eden Paul, most commonly known simply as Eden Paul was a socialist physician, writer and translator.-Biography:...
) Rejuvenation: Steinach’s researches on the sex-glands. London: Athenaeum Press, 1923. - Rejuvenation: the work of Steinach, Voronoff, and others, London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. [1924]
- Hymen, or the future of marriage, London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927.
- (tr. with E. S. Jerdan) Woman and love. Vol. 2, A treatise on the anatomy, physiology, psychology and sexual life of woman with an appendix on prostitution by Bernhard A. Bauer. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Translated from the German Wie bist du, weib
- (ed.) Some more medical views on birth control, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1928].
- (ed.) Love-life in nature; the story of the evolution of love by Wilhelm BölscheWilhelm BölscheWilhelm Bölsche was a German author, editor & publicist.-Life:...
. Translated from the German by Cyril Brown. London: J. Cape, [1931] - Introduction to Man into woman: An authentic record of a change of sex; The true story of the miraculous transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener by Lili ElbeLili ElbeLili Elbe was an Intersex person and one of the first identifiable recipients of male to female sex reassignment surgery. Elbe was born as a male in Denmark. Born as Einar Mogens Wegener, she identified as male for most of her life and was a successful artist with that name...
and Niels Hoyer, translated from the German by H. J. Stenningworth. New York: Dutton; London, Jarrold Publishers, 1933 - Introduction to Anthony M. Ludovici, The Choice of a Mate, London: The international library of sexology and psychology, 1935
- Introduction and notes to The ethics of sexual acts by René GuyonRené GuyonRené Guyon was a French jurist, best known for having written upon the topic of sexual ethics.René Guyon was involved in writing legal codes for Siam and was the head judge of the supreme court of that country where he was given Thai name Phichan Bunyong .The Rene Guyon Society is named after...
. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1934. (Translated from the French by J. C. Flugel and Ingeborg Flugel.) - (ed. with Alfrède CostlerArthur KoestlerArthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
, pseud., & A. Willy, pseud.) Encyclopaedia of sexual knowledge, London: F. Aldor 1934. - Introduction to Sofie Lazarfield, Woman's Experience of the Male, London: Encyclopaedic Press, 1938
- Australia's Population Problem, 1941
- Sex Problems of Today, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942
- (as Wykeham Terriss) Sex Talks,, 1946
External links
- Norman Haire (1892 – 1952) sexologist, A Gender Variance Who's Who, 12 January 2011.