Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice : the disease that came to stay / Laura J. McGough.

  • McGough, Laura J., 1964-
Date:
2010
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A network of lovers : sexuality and disease patterns in early modern Venice -- The suspected culprits : dangerously beautiful prostitutes and debauched men -- Stigma reinforced : the problem of incurable cases of a curable disease -- Gender and institutions : hospitals and female asylums.

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    History of Medicine
    TR.34.AA4-6
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  • 9780230252929
  • 0230252923