The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present
Title:
The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present
Author:
Allen, Peter L., 1957-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Notes: p. [163]-178.
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780226014609
Format :
Book
