Title Sex, sin and suffering : venereal disease and European society since 1870 / edited by Roger Davidson and Lesley A. Hall

Published New York : Routledge, 2001

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Description xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 11 Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 11 Contents Syphilis and prostitution: a regulatory couplet in nineteenth-century France / Andrew Aisenberg -- Passing the "Black Judgement": Swedish social policy on venereal disease in the early twentieth century / Anna Lundberg -- "The shadow of contagion": gender, syphilis and the regulation of prostitution in the Netherlands, 1870-1914 / Petra de Vries -- Doctors, social medicine and VD in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Spain / Ramón Castejón-Bolea -- "The fatherland is in danger, save the fatherland!": venereal disease, sexuality and gender in Imperial and Weimar Germany / Lutz D.H. Sauerteig -- Visions of sexual health and illness in revolutionary Russia / Frances Bernstein -- Venereal diseases and society in Britain, from the Contagious Diseases Acts to the National Health Service / Lesley A. Hall -- "The thorns of love": sexuality, syphilis and social control in modern Italy / Bruno P.F. Wanrooij -- Public health, venereal disease and colonial medicine in the later nineteenth century / Philippa Levine -- Health and empire: Britain's national campaign to combat venereal diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore / Kerrie L. MacPherson -- Venereal disease, sexuality and society in Uganda / Michael W. Tuck -- Women, venereal disease and the control of female sexuality in post-war Hamburg / Michaela Freund -- "The price of the permissive society": the epidemiology and control of VD and STDs in late-twentieth-century Scotland / Roger Davidson -- Sexually transmitted disease policy in the English National Health Service, 1948-2000: continuity and social change / David Evans Analysis Venereal Diseases--Europe--History--20th Century Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Europe--History--20th Century Prostitution--Europe--History--20th Century Notes Includes bibliographical references and index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page) and index Subject Sexually transmitted diseases -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Prostitution -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Author Davidson, Roger, 1942- Hall, Lesley, 1949- LC no. 00062803 ISBN 0415234441 :

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