In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas

By Elliott Bowen Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

What did Americans living in the time before antibiotics do when they got syphilis?

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Author Interviews, Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa

By Marc Epprecht African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Class shame hinging upon perceived sexual immorality is an often overlooked element of anti-colonial/apartheid politics in South Africa.

Taking the Venereal Out of Venereal Disease: The 1930s Public Health Campaign against Syphilis and Gonorrhea

By Erin Wuebker Medicine and the Body

VD was often associated with immorality.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.