The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France by Steven Wilson

The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France

Research Monographs in French Studies

Steven Wilson

158 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics health history literary

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While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including degeneracy, depopulation, state surveillance and p...

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