Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice [electronic resource] : The Disease that Came to Stay /
McGough, L.author.
A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A network of lovers : sexuality and disease patterns in early modern Venice -- The suspected culprits : dangerously beautiful prostitutes and debauched men -- Stigma reinforced : the problem of incurable cases of a curable disease -- Gender and institutions : hospitals and female asylums.
A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Civilization
Clinical psychology.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Italy.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Clinical Psychology.