Chapter One (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity
Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging. The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence, of any particular condition before an assessment can be made of its demographic impact. In the case of what are now called sexually transmit...
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| description | Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging.
The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence,
of any particular condition before an assessment can be made of its demographic
impact. In the case of what are now called sexually transmitted infections
(STIs), the empirical obstacles to identifying such infections in the
classical world are exacerbated by the moralizing that attends discussions of
sexual practice and that has so strongly characterized the ways sexual behavior
and pathology have been, and continue to be, conceptually conjoined. Julius
Rosenbaum’s influential and exhaustive nineteenth-century exploration of
the ancient history of syphilis (broadly construed), for example, is based on
the assumption that venereal diseases are caused by the “abuse” of the genital
organs for nonprocreative purposes. Their history is, therefore, the history
of human “lasciviousness and debauchery,” and there was so much of that
in classical Greece and Rome that syphilis and all kinds of genital afflictions
necessarily followed. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-276862025-07-21T15:58:03Z Chapter One (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity Flemming, Rebecca sexually transmitted infections fertility antiquity thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging. The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence, of any particular condition before an assessment can be made of its demographic impact. In the case of what are now called sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the empirical obstacles to identifying such infections in the classical world are exacerbated by the moralizing that attends discussions of sexual practice and that has so strongly characterized the ways sexual behavior and pathology have been, and continue to be, conceptually conjoined. Julius Rosenbaum’s influential and exhaustive nineteenth-century exploration of the ancient history of syphilis (broadly construed), for example, is based on the assumption that venereal diseases are caused by the “abuse” of the genital organs for nonprocreative purposes. Their history is, therefore, the history of human “lasciviousness and debauchery,” and there was so much of that in classical Greece and Rome that syphilis and all kinds of genital afflictions necessarily followed. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-10-09 09:49:48 2020-04-01T10:01:39Z 2019 chapter 1005519 OCN: 1135848543 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24592 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27686 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24592/1/Bookshelf_NBK547155.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24592/1/Bookshelf_NBK547155.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24592/1/Bookshelf_NBK547155.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24592/1/Bookshelf_NBK547155.pdf University of Rochester Press 10.2307/j.ctvd58rzz 10.2307/j.ctvd58rzz 26aea9a8-2a5b-42fc-9228-6635e6a52000 The Hidden Affliction Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 25 Rochester 605972 open access |
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