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The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present / Peter Lewis Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000Description: xxiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226014606
  • 9780226014609
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 21
LOC classification:
  • RA644.V4 .A45 2000
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.
Summary: "Throughout history, Western culture has often viewed disease--from leprosy to syphilis and AIDS--as punishment for sin. The Wages of Sin offers a remarkable history of this perception, and explains how these ancient views continue to shape contemporary life and public policy."--Publisher description.
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Notes: p. [163]-178.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.

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.

"Throughout history, Western culture has often viewed disease--from leprosy to syphilis and AIDS--as punishment for sin. The Wages of Sin offers a remarkable history of this perception, and explains how these ancient views continue to shape contemporary life and public policy."--Publisher description.

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