The elements of social science
Subtitle: or, physical, sexual, and natural religion
By: by George Drysdale ; edited by Robert Darby
Contributors: Darby, Robert
Series: Great minds series; Great minds series
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9781616141790
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases; Birth control; Sexual health; Sex
Other titles: Physical, sexual, and natural religion
Description: In this carefully abridged edition of The Elements of Social Science, Dr. Robert Darby presents the bulk of Drysdale's polemic, which has not been reprinted since 1905, with an introduction that sets out the context in which it was written, the influence it exerted, and its relevance to contemporary debates about sex education, control of venereal disease, sexual morality, and the roles of science and religion both in society and in our personal lives. --Book Jacket.
Notes: "A classic treatise on Victorian sexuality"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Physical religion; title: Man the physician; title: Woman the physician; title: Subjective medicine; title: Life and death; title: Health of towns; title: Mental disease; title: Spiritualism; title: Sexual religion; title: Reproduction and development; title: Diseases of the male generative organs; title: Evils of abstinence; title: Excess; title: Abuse; title: Spermatorrhoea; title: Venereal diseases; title: Balanitis; title: Gonorrhoea; title: Syphilis; title: Diseases of the female generative organs; title: Chlorosis; title: Hysteria; title: Sexual excess; title: Venereal diseases in the female; title: General remarks on the sexual diseases; title: Prostitution; title: Poverty, its only cause and its only cure, with the solution of the social problem; title: Natural religion; title: Dignity, liberty and independence; title: Natural religion; title: Social science; title: The main elements of social science; title: The laws of exercise, fecundity and agricultural industry; title: Recapitulation of the preceding laws.