Sex, sin, and science
Subtitle: a history of syphilis in America
By: John Parascandola.
Series: Healing society--disease, medicine, and history
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780275994303
Subjects: Syphilis -- United States -- History; Syphilis -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The great pox: origins and European background; title: A "secret disease:" syphilis in America before the First World War; title: "Continence is not incompatible with health:" syphilis in World War I; title: "Congress apparently thought the spirochetes of syphilis were demobilized:" the interwar years; title: "Fool the axis - use prophylaxis": syphilis in World War II; title: "Magic in the form of penicillin:" syphilis in America since World War II.