Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America / John Parascandola ; foreword by Richard H. Carmona.

Author
Parascandola, John, 1941- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Description
195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    Social and cultural factors, as well as medical ones, help to shape the way we understand and react to diseases. In the case of a disease associated with sex, social and cultural factors figure especially large in its history. For example, moral and religious views influence almost everything connected with sex, and that includes sexually transmitted diseases. Syphilis thus provides an excellent case study to help understand the history of disease in a broader human context. This book covers the history of syphilis in America, from Colonial times to the present, as well as laying bare the origins and spread of the disease in Europe. --amazon.com.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
    Contents
    • The great pox: origins and European background
    • A "secret disease": syphilis in America before the First World War
    • "Continence is not incompatible with health": syphilis in World War I
    • "Congress apparently thought the spirochetes of syphilis were demobilized": the interwar years
    • "Fool the Axis--use prophylaxis": syphilis in World War II
    • "Magic in the form of penicillin": syphilis in America since World War II.
    ISBN
    • 9780275994303 ((alk. paper))
    • 0275994309 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2008009953
    OCLC
    213008128
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