Sex, Sin and Suffering
Subtitle: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 11)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415234443
Subjects: Gender studies; History Of Medicine; Illness & addiction: social aspects; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Medical; Europe; Europe - General; Social History; History / Europe / General; Family & General Practice; History; Prostitution; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
First sentence: The attempt to write the interrelated histories of the regulation of prostitution and syphilis in modern France poses a number of paradoxes.