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No Magic Bullet

No Magic Bullet

A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880- 35th Anniversary Edition

9780190863425
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From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns. In No Magic Bullet, Allan M. Brandt recounts the various medical, military, and public health responses that have arisen over the years-a broad spectrum that ranges from the incarceration of prostitutes during World War I to the establishment of required premarital bloodtests.Brandt demonstrates that Americans concerns about venereal disease have centered around a set of social and cultural values related to sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and class. At the heart of our efforts to combat these infections, he argues, has been the tendency to view venereal disease as both a punishment for sexual misconduct and an index of social decay. This tension between medical and moral approaches has significantly impeded efforts to develop magic bullets-drugs that would ridus of the disease-as well as effective policies for controlling the infections spread.In this 35th anniversary edition of No Magic Bullet, Brandt reflects on recent scholarship, the persistence of sexually transmitted diseases, and the trajectory of the HIV epidemic, as they have informed contemporary conceptions of biomedicine and global health.
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OUP USA
88883
9780190863425
9780190863425

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Publication date
2020
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
344
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
363
  • Introduction: Sex, Disease, and Medicine; I. Damaged Goods: Progressive Medicine and Social Hygiene; II. Fit to Fight: The Commission on Training Camp Activities; III. The Cleanest Army in the World: Venereal Disease and the AEF; IV. Shadow on the Land: Thomas Parran and the New Deal; V. Dr. Ehrlichs Magic Bullet: Venereal Disease in the Age of Antibiotics; VI. Plagues and Peoples: The AIDS Epidemic; Afterword to 35th Anniversary Edition; Appendix; Note on Sources; Manuscript Sources; Abbreviations; Notes; Index;
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