How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Tag: venereal disease
“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan
Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods
Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.
Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic
Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.
Taking the Venereal Out of Venereal Disease: The 1930s Public Health Campaign against Syphilis and Gonorrhea
VD was often associated with immorality.
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