Sex, sin, and science a history of syphilis in America

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": t...

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1. Verfasser: Parascandola, John (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Carmona, Richard H. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Westport, Conn. u.a. Praeger 2008
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Healing society: disease, medicine, and history
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Zusammenfassung: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
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index
Beschreibung:195 S.
Ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0275994309
0-275-99430-9
9780275994303
978-0-275-99430-3