No magic bullet a social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880 ; [with a new chapter on AIDS]
From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns. In No Magic Bullet, Allan M. Brandt recounts the various medical, military, and public health res...
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New York u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
1987
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| Ausgabe: | Expanded ed., 1. publ. as an Oxford Univ. Pr. paperback |
| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford paperbacks
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns. In No Magic Bullet, Allan M. Brandt recounts the various medical, military, and public health responses that have arisen over the years--a broad spectrum that ranges from the incarceration of prostitutes during World War I to the establishment of required premarital blood tests. Brandt demostrates that Americans' concerns about venereal disease have centered around a set of social and cultural values related to sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and class. At the heart of our efforts to combat these infections, he argues, has been the tendency to view venereal disease as both a punishment for sexual misconduct and an index of social decay. This tension between medical and moral approaches has significantly impeded efforts to develop "magic bullets"--drugs that would rid us of the disease--as well as effective policies for controlling the infections' spread. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 266 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780195034691 978-0-19-503469-1 9780195042375 978-0-19-504237-5 0195034694 0-19-503469-4 0195042379 0-19-504237-9 |