Syphilis and Subjectivity

Syphilis and Subjectivity

From the Victorians to the Present

Servitje, Lorenzo; Nixon, Kari

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2019

188

Mole

Inglês

9783319882260

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction; Part I: Structuring Syphilis.- Kari Nixon and Lorenzo Servitje.- 1. Medical Mappings of Syphilis in the Late Nineteenth Century; Monika Pietrzak-Franger.- 2. Stigmatization, Syphilis, and Prostitution: The Discursive Construction of Sex Workers, Disease, and Feeblemindedness; J.L. Schatz.- 3. Marriage, Motherhood and the Future of the Race: Syphilis in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Joanne Townsend.- 4. Suspect Bodies, Suspect Milk: Milk Sharing, Wetnursing, and the Specter of Syphilis in the 21st Century; Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster and Shannon K. Carter.- Part II: Novel Infections.- 5. Not-So-Great Expectations: Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins; Livia Woods.- 6. Unspeakable Horror: Outing Syphilis in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Nicole Cosentino and Wendy Ryden.- 7. "Everybody Has it": Syphilis and the Human Condition in the Writings of Ernest Hemingway; LisaTyler.
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Science and technology studies;Prostitution and Disease;Health studies;Medical sociology;history of syphilis in Britain;sexually transmitted diseases;public health and sexually transmitted diseases;disease prevention;medical humanities;literature and medicine;Syphilis in the 21st Century;Ernest Hemingway and Syphilis;Syphilis in Conrad's Heart of Darkness;Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins