ABSTRACT
This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how such responses reflected and shaped social attitudes towards sexuality and social relationships of class, gender, generation and race.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Passing the ‘Black Judgement'
Swedish social policy on venereal disease in the early twentieth century
chapter |17 pages
‘The Shadow of Contagion'
Gender, syphilis and the regulation of prostitution in the Netherlands, 1870–1914
chapter |17 pages
‘The Fatherland is in Danger, Save the Fatherland!'
Venereal disease, sexuality and gender in Imperial and Weimar Germany
chapter |18 pages
Health and Empire
Britain's national campaign to combat venereal diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore
chapter |17 pages
‘The Price of the Permissive Society'
The epidemiology and control of VD and STDs in late-twentieth-century Scotland
chapter |16 pages
Sexually Transmitted Disease Policy in the English National Health Service, 1948–2000
Continuity and social change
