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Routledge, 29 West 35th St., New York, NY 10001. 259p., illus., bibliog., index. (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, no. 11). ISBN 0-415-23444-1. $85.00.
edited by Roger Davidson, Lesley A. Hall. 2001.
The individual chapters cover: "Syphilis and Prostitution: A regulatory Couplet in Nineteenth-Century France," "Passing the Black Judgment: Swedish Social Policy on Venereal Disease in the Early Twentieth Century," "The Shadow of Contagion: Gender, Syphilis and the Regulation of Prostitution in the Netherlands, 1870-1914," "Doctors, Social Medicine and VD in Late-Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Spain," "The Fatherland Is in Danger, Save the Fatherland: Venereal Disease, Sexuality and Gender in Imperial and Weimar German," "Vision of Sexual Health and Illness in Revolutionary Russia," "Venereal Diseases and Society in Britain, from the Contagious Diseases Acts to the National Health Service," "The Thorns of Love: Sexuality, Syphilis and Social Control in Modern Italy," "Public Health, Venereal Disease and Colonial Medicine in the Later Nineteenth Century," "Health and Empire: Britain's National Campaign to Combat Venereal Diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore," "Venereal Disease, Sexuality and Society in Uganda," "Women, Venereal Disease and the Control of Female Sexuality in Post-War Hamburg," "The Price of the Permissive Society: The Epidemiology and Control of VD and STDs in Late-Twentieth-Century Scotland," and "Sexually Transmitted Disease Policy in the English National Health Service, 1948-2000: Continuity and Social Change."
These are interesting essays that are very scholarly. Each has an extensive list of references and a brief index aids in locating specific bits of information. "This wide-ranging and illuminating book will be an invaluable resource for researchers in a number of disciplines including history, history of medicine, social policy, welfare, gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies." It is a recommended book for all academic libraries.
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