A32=Adrien Minard
A32=Charlotte Roberts
A32=Christina Benninghaus
A32=Fabrice Cahen
A32=Hugh R. Taylor
A32=Ian N. Clarke
A32=Janet McCalman
A32=Kevin Schürer
A32=Michael Worboys
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Simon Szreter
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=MBX
Category=MFKC1
Category=MJCJ1
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
disease impact
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
historical medicine
history
infertility
infertility causes
Language_English
medical history
PA=Available
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
reproductive health
Sexually Transmitted Infections
softlaunch
STIs
Product details
- ISBN 9781580469616
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject across more than two thousand years of human history.
Following asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2 addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists, the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain.
Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
SIMON SZRETER is Professor of History and Public Policy as well as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK. SIMON SZRETER is Professor of History and Public Policy as well as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK.
