On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
Medicine and the Body
The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.
Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany
The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.
The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.
“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.
Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica
Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.
Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality
The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.