PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sayers, G M TI - “Stepford doctors”: an allegory AID - 10.1136/jmh.2004.000187 DP - 2006 Jun 01 TA - Medical Humanities PG - 57--58 VI - 32 IP - 1 4099 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/32/1/57.short 4100 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/32/1/57.full SO - J Med Humanit2006 Jun 01; 32 AB - The Stepford Wives, a novel by Ira Levin, provides the theme for this allegory. The men of Stepford belong to the Men’s Association. Their wives are “perfect”, in that they do nothing other than clean, cook, preen, and provide satisfaction without argument for their husbands. They are, furthermore, content with their lot, and believe that their previous interests and freedoms were self indulgent. Levin never informs his readers how the men came to obtain total mastery over their “Stepford wives”, although there is the suggestion that the real wives have been replaced by robotic lookalikes.