In Search of Sexual Health Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1890–1940 / Elliot Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Elliott G., 1983- auteur.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syphilis--Treatment.

Syphilis.

Soldiers--Health and hygiene.

Soldiers.

Hospitals.

Syphilis--Treatment--Arkansas--Hot Springs--History.

Soldiers--Health and hygiene--United States--History.

Hospitals--Arkansas--Hot Springs--History.

United States.

Arkansas--Hot Springs.

Arkansas.

Army and Navy General Hospital (Hot Springs, Ark.).

United States. Public Health Service. Division of Venereal Diseases.

Genre:

Livres numériques.

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[2020] Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

Summary:

"This book examines the "venereal peril" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the perspective of medical practice and the many sufferers who annually journeyed to Hot Springs, AR, seeking relief for their venereal ailments. Syphilis's status as a stigmatized disease of "others" (namely, prostitutes, immigrants, and African Americans) had a direct impact on the kinds of treatment that patients received, and this led to very different outcomes for the Hot Springs pilgrims"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Making the mecca of the American syphilitic, 1880-1910

"Administering to minds diseased": treating syphilis in turn-of-the-century Hot Springs

Diagnosing syphilis at Army and Navy General Hospital, 1890-1912

The Hot Springs VD clinic, 1920-1937

From hygiene to hydrotherapy : private practitioners in Hot Springs, 1910-1940.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-3857-7

OCLC:

1264422438