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dc.contributor.editorSzreter, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.submitted2019-10-09 09:49:08
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T10:01:40Z
dc.identifier1005517
dc.identifierOCN: 1135850404
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24594
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38153
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
dc.subject.otherRochester Studies in Medical History
dc.subject.otherMedical & Scientific History
dc.subject.otherModern History
dc.titleThe Hidden Affliction
dc.title.alternativeSexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History
dc.typebook
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oapen.pages450
oapen.place.publicationRochester


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  • Flemming, Rebecca (2019)
    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 ...
  • Szreter, Simon; Schürer, Kevin (2019)
    By the turn of the twentieth century the British nation’s declining birthrate was increasingly the subject of anxious public and scientific debate, as the Registrar General’s annual reports continued to confirm a ...
  • Szreter, Simon (2019)
    This volume is a necessarily multidisciplinary collection dedicated to the extremely difficult task of uncovering and exploring what can be reconstructed of the dimensions and the scale of the historical impact of ...

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