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Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America
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Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America

Author: John Parascandola
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Series: Healing society--disease, medicine, and history
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Parascandola
ISBN: 9780275994303 0275994309
OCLC Number: 213008128
Description: 195 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The great pox: origins and European background -- A "secret disease": syphilis in America before the First World War -- "Continence is not incompatible with health": syphilis in World War I -- "Congress apparently thought the spirochetes of syphilis were demobilized": the interwar years -- "Fool the Axis--use prophylaxis": syphilis in World War II -- "Magic in the form of penicillin": syphilis in America since World War II.
Series Title: Healing society--disease, medicine, and history
Responsibility: John Parascandola ; foreword by Richard H. Carmona.

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