Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great ''social evil'', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable h...
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great ''social evil'', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable h...
