| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- No Magic Bullet -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Sex, Disease, and Medicine -- 1. "Damaged Goods": Progressive Medicine and Social Hygiene -- 2. "Fit to Fight": The Commission on Training Camp Activities -- 3. "The Cleanest Army in the World": Venereal Disease and the AEF -- 4. "Shadow on the Land": Thomas Parran and the New Deal -- 5. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet: Venereal Disease in the Age of Antibiotics -- 6. "Plagues and Peoples": The AIDS Epidemic -- Afterword to Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition -- Appendix |
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Note on Sources -- Manuscript Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
The epidemic of AIDS and herpes virus has called into question not only the ability of the medical profession to treat venereal disease but also its willingness to do so. No Magic Bullet, a perceptive analysis of the treatment of venereal diseases since the 1880s, places these questions in critical historical perspective. Beginning with Victorian hysteria about syphilis and continuing to contemporary treatment of AIDS, Allan Brandt recounts the various medical, military, and public health responses to venereal diseases that have arisen over the years. Brandt demonstrates that Americans' tenden |
| Notes |
First edition: 1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Sexually transmitted diseases -- United States -- History
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- history
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Sexually transmitted diseases
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190863432 |
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0190863439 |
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9780190863449 |
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0190863447 |
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