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Davidson Roger

Sex sin and suffering : Veneral disease and European society since 1870 - London Routledge 2011 - 259p xii

Table of contents
Introduction Roger Davidson and Lesley Hall;
1. Syphilis and Prostitution: a Regulatory Couplet in Nineteenth-Century France Andrew Aisenberg;
2. Passing the 'Black Judgement': Swedish Social Policy on Venereal Disease in the Early Twentieth Century Anna Lundberg;
3. 'The Shadow of Contagion': Gender, Syphilis and the Regulation of Prostitution in the Netherlands, 1870-1900 Petra de Vries;
4. Doctors, Social Medicine and VD in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Spain Ramon Castejon-Bolea;
5. 'The Fatherland is in Danger, Save the Fatherland!': Venereal Disease, Sexuality and Gender in Imperial and Weimar Germany Lutz Sauerteig;
6. Visions of Sexual Health and Illness in Revolutionary Russia Frances Bernstein;
7. Venereal Disease and Society in Britain, from the Contagious Diseases Acts to the National Health Service Lesley Hall;
8. 'The Thorns of Love': Sexuality, Syphilis and Social Control in Modern Italy Bruno Wanrooij;
9. Public Health, Venereal Disease and Colonial Medicine in the Later Nineteenth Century Philippa Levine;
10. Health and Empire: Britain's National Campaign to Combat Venereal Diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore Kerrie MacPherson;
11. Venereal Disease, Sexuality and Society in Uganda Michael Tuck;
12. Women, Venereal Disease and the Control of Female Sexuality in Post-War Hamburg Michaela Freund;
13. 'The Price of the Permissive Society': the Epidemiology and Control of VD and STDs in Late Twentieth-Century Scotland Roger Davidson;
14. Sexually Transmitted Disease Policy in the English National Health Service, 1948-98: Continuity and Social Change David Evans

ISBN: 9780415510783

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Veneral Diseases - Europe - - History - 20th Century 2. Sexually Transmitted Diseases3. Prostitution - Europe - History - 20th Century

Dewey Class. No.: 616.950000 / DAV