Screen LibrarySex, sin, and science：a history of syphilis in America
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| Published: |
Praeger,
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| Publisher Address: | Westport, Conn. |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Healing society--disease, medicine, and history |
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| Carrier Form: | 195 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780275994303 (alk. paper) 0275994309 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R759 |
| CLC: | R759.1-097.12 |
| Call Number: | R759.1-097.12/P223 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index. 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. |