Homosexuality and science : a guide to the debates / Vernon A. Rosario ; foreword by Richard Pillard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosario, Vernon A.

Series:

Controversies in science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Research--History.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Research.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbaram Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2002]

Summary:

A thought-provoking series that chronicles the discussions, disputes, and debates that have divided scientists and advanced science through the ages.

The origins of humanity? The causes of homosexuality? Experimentation on humans and animals? In both theory and practice, science is riven by controversy. Always has been, always will be. Controversies in Science reveals the history of humanity's disputatious pursuit of truth-the passions, the polemics, and the partisanship.

ABC-CLIO's Controversies in Science series examines some of the greatest debates in the history of science's quest for truth. Edited by top scientists, philosophers, and historians, the titles explore fields as diverse as cosmology, genetics, evolution, psychiatry, and the fascinating and speculative study of extraterrestrial biology. Who are we? Where do we come from? And what limits should we place on the pursuit of answers to these questions?

The truth is out there. But what routes have we taken? What routes should we take? Controversies in Science offers a road map.

Contents:

Victorian doctors tackle onanism and the sexual perversions

Turn-of-the-century sexual inverts

From the gay twenties to homosexual panic

Screening out homosexuals

The cold war and the sexual revolution

The triumph and decline of psychiatric models "off the couches, into the streets!"

From gay pride to the gay plague

Millennial queers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1576072819

OCLC:

48773964