The hidden affliction : sexually transmitted infections and infertility in history / / edited by Simon Szreter [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: University of Rochester Press; Rochester, NY : , : University of Rochester Press, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 442 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 616.95/1
• Soggetto topico: Sexually transmitted diseases
• Soggetto non controllato: STIs; Sexually Transmitted Infections; disease impact; historical medicine; history; infertility causes; infertility; medical history; reproductive health
• Persona (resp. second.): SzreterSimon
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2020).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Hidden Pitfalls in the Early Documentary Record -- 1 (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity -- 2 "Poxt and Clapt Together": Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease -- Part Two. The Biomedical Sciences and the History of the STI Microorganisms -- 3 Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease -- 4 A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible Ocular and Invisible Genital Variants -- 5 Chlamydia: A Disease without a History -- Part Three. Population Decline in the Global South -- 6 Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Low Fertility -- 7 Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea -- 8 Fertility, STIs, and Sexual Behavior in Early and Mid-Twentieth- Century East Africa -- 9 "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies -- Part Four. Infertility and the Specter of Venereal Diseases in Modern Europe -- 10 "The Archenemy of Fertility": Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870-1935 -- 11 Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion, and Acquired Infertility in France, circa 1880-1950 -- 12 Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? -- List of Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the historic" STIS--gonorrhea chlamydia and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia."
• Altri titoli varianti: Hidden Affliction
• Titolo autorizzato: The hidden affliction
• ISBN: 1-78744-582-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765751103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rochester studies in medical history.