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The Disease of Virgins - Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty (Hardcover, Revised)
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The Disease of Virgins - Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty (Hardcover, Revised)
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When does a young girl's behaviour become a disease? In
sixteenth-century Europe, the disease of virgins, or green
sickness, was seen as a common disorder affecting young unmarried
girls. Its symptoms included weakness, dietary disturbance, lack of
menstruation and most significantly, a change in skin colour.
Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into
medical problems, and proposed to cure them by bloodletting, diet,
exercise, and marriage. Helen King examines the origins and history
of the disease, from its roots in the classical tradition to its
extraordinary survival into the 1920s, despite changes in how the
mechanisms of puberty and menstruation were understood, and
enormous shifts in medical theories and technologies. From
menstrual disturbance to eating disorders, from liver disease to
blood disorder, the disease of virgins has been adjusted throughout
its history to fit medical fashions. However, little changed in the
underlying ideas about the female body, and the need to regulate
the sexuality of young women. This compelling study poses a number
of questions about the nature of disease itself and the
relationship between illness, body image and what
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