The Hidden Affliction
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"--gono...
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| description | 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 the late 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 a synoptic 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, with new 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-381532025-02-04T07:46:56Z The Hidden Affliction Szreter, Simon Rochester Studies in Medical History Medical & Scientific History Modern History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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 the late 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 a synoptic 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, with new 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-10-09 09:49:08 2020-04-01T10:01:40Z 2019 book 1005517 OCN: 1135850404 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24594 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38153 eng open access University of Rochester Press 26aea9a8-2a5b-42fc-9228-6635e6a52000 Chapter Twelve Revealing the Hidden Affliction Chapter Five Chlamydia Chapter One (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity Chapter Introduction 450 Rochester open access |
| spellingShingle | Rochester Studies in Medical History Medical & Scientific History Modern History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine The Hidden Affliction |
| title | The Hidden Affliction |
| title_full | The Hidden Affliction |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Hidden Affliction |
| title_short | The Hidden Affliction |
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| topic | Rochester Studies in Medical History Medical & Scientific History Modern History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine |
| topic_facet | Rochester Studies in Medical History Medical & Scientific History Modern History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine |
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