MEDICAL ANALYSIS OF A THOUSAND MARRIAGES

22 August 1931

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 97 (8) , 529-535
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1931.02730080021007

Abstract

Among the large number of volumes on marriage, only two are based on case studies. The extensive social investigation by Katherine Davis¹and the intensive psychologic inquiry by Gilbert Hamilton²elect to omit many of the medical and physical aspects of wedlock. A gynecologist-obstetrician lays stress on these very aspects in his forty year study of marriage.³His analysis utilizes 1,098 records with observations ranging from less than one year to more than four decades—the average being seven years—and with entries distributed from childhood to old age (chart 1). PURPOSE, TYPE OF PERSON, AND METHOD OF OBSERVATION The purpose of this search for the detail of success or failure in sex adjustment is the eventual making of useful schedules for sex education, for premarital medical instruction, and for texts on conjugal hygiene. Such a study and such a program are part of the new field of preventive

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