No Magic Bullet - A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880- 35th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns. In No Magic Bullet, Allan M. Brandt recounts the various medical, military, and public health responses that have arisen over the years-a broad spectrum that ranges from the incarceration of prostitutes during World War I to the establishment of required premarital blood tests. Brandt demonstrates that Americans' concerns about venereal disease have centered around a set of social and cultural values related to sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and class. At the heart of our efforts to combat these infections, he argues, has been the tendency to view venereal disease as both a punishment for sexual misconduct and an index of social decay. This tension between medical and moral approaches has significantly impeded efforts to develop "magic bullets"-drugs that would rid us of the disease-as well as effective policies for controlling the infections' spread. In this 35th anniversary edition of No Magic Bullet, Brandt reflects on recent scholarship, the persistence of sexually transmitted diseases, and the trajectory of the HIV epidemic, as they have informed contemporary conceptions of biomedicine and global health.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Allan M. Brandt (Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science)
Dimensions:	236 x 151 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-086342-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-19-086342-0
Barcode:	9780190863425

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