Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America by John Parascandola, Richard H. Carmona

Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America

John Parascandola, Richard H. Carmona

195 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced

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Social and cultural factors, as well as medical ones, help to shape the way we understand and react to diseases. In the case of a disease associated with sex, social and cultural factors figure especially large in its history. For example, moral a...

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