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The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present  Cover Image Book Book

The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present / Peter Lewis Allen.

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  • ISBN: 0226014606 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Notes: p. [163]-178.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-193) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sex by prescription : lovesickness in the Middle Ages -- To live outside the camp : medieval leprosy -- The just rewards of unbridled lust : syphilis in early modern Europe -- A broom in the hands of the Almighty : bubonic plague -- The heinous sin of self-pollution : medicine, morals, and masturbation -- AIDS in the U.S.A.
Subject: Sexually transmitted diseases > Social aspects.
Sexually transmitted diseases > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sexually transmitted diseases > History.
Sexual ethics > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library RA 644 .V4 .A45 2000 30528572 General Collection Available -


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