Background
Abraham was born on October 30, 1890 in Russia, the son of Miron Stone, a merchant, and Amelia Chamers. In 1905 his parents sent him to live with relatives in New York City. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1915.
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Additional Contributor Is Ruth Robishaw.
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From its initial publication in 1935 it was obvious that "A Marriage Manual" filled a long-felt need. In an era when sex and marriage were not as widely discussed as they are today, it was not easy for young couples to obtain accurate and well-presented information about a subject that was naturally of interest to them. It was in fact a taboo subject in many circles. It is all the more tribute to the authors that they approached their task with directness and frankness. They were concerned only with presenting as clearly and fully as possible the information that they knew, from their long experience as physicians and marriage counselors, was needed by men and women of all ages. Their skill and expertise were combined with a wise and tasteful humanitarianism that raised the book above controversy. The present revision has been ably executed by the daughter of the original authors, Dr. Gloria Stone Aitken, who is herself a physician with Willets Health Center, Douglass College, Rutgers University, and Dr. Aquiles J. Sobrero, a successor to the Doctors Stone in his association with the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau. Their additions make the work contemporary with the newest findings in the related fields of marriage, family planning and birth control. But the subject of the book is in many aspects a timeless one, presenting, as the authors said in their foreword to the first edition, "the essential facts of mating and reproduction." It is a testimony to Dr. Hannah Stone and Dr. Abraham Stone that so much of their original work remains because it could not be improved upon. It is as clear, fresh and pertinent today as when it was written.
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Additional Contributor Is J. Shirley Sweeney.
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Abraham was born on October 30, 1890 in Russia, the son of Miron Stone, a merchant, and Amelia Chamers. In 1905 his parents sent him to live with relatives in New York City. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1915.
He attended New York University, receiving his M. D. in 1912.
Stone served his internship and residency at the Knickerbocker, St. Mark's, and Bellevue hospitals in New York and began the private practice of urology in 1915. He was lieutenant in the army medical corps from 1917 to 1920.
Stone was appointed instructor in urology at the New York Postgraduate Medical School in 1923, a position he held until 1927.
He also served as chief urologist for the Union Health Center from 1929 to 1950 and was on the faculties of the New School for Social Research and the New York University-Bellevue medical school until his death.
The major focus of his career, however, emerged in 1921, when the Stones attended the First International Birth-Control Congress in New York and met the pioneering Margaret Sanger. The three quickly allied themselves for the cause of promoting both the practice of and research in birth-control methods.
His wife Hannah Mayer Stone became the first director of the Margaret Sanger Research Center, and after her death in 1941, Abraham Stone became its director. In 1931, Stone became director of the marriage consultation center of the Community Church of New York and began to write extensively on a number of issues involving human sexuality, contraception, marriage counseling, and fertility.
A Marriage Manual, written jointly with his wife, quickly became a classic, appearing subsequently in six English editions as well as in several foreign languages. Practical Birth-Control Methods, by Norman E. Himes, "with the medical collaboration of Abraham Stone, M. D. ," was published in 1938, with subsequent editions in 1940, 1945, and 1949.
A revised edition, Planned Parenthood: A Practical Guide to Birth-Control Methods, by Abraham Stone and Norman E. Himes, appeared in 1951. Stone's The Premarital Consultation: A Manual for Physicians, written with Lena Levine, was published in 1956.
Stone died in New York City.
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He traveled extensively, lecturing and consulting for the United Nations and for other agencies.
Quotes from others about the person
Alan Guttmacher, a fellow physician and colleague in the birth-control movement, wrote that "Stone was the peripatetic World Ambassador for family life. "
On August 17, 1917, he married Hannah Mayer, a Bellevue hospital pharmacist. Hannah Stone went to medical school while Abraham was in the army. She became a gynecologist and joined Stone in his private practice upon his return from service. They had one daughter, who became a physician and also married a physician.