The hidden affliction sexually transmitted infections and infertility in history
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."
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press
2019.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in medical history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009621945806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
