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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Siena, Kevin, "The Venereal Disease', 1500–1800", dins: Toulalan, Sarah - Fisher, Kate (eds.), The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present, Londres, Routledge, 2013, pp. 463-478.
- Resum
- The shock to Europe's system that the new disease administered, for its newness, lethality and connection to sexuality, guaranteed a profound range of responses. England eventually witnessed fallen women's asylums attached to venereal disease hospitals, but not until the late eighteenth century, when the London Lock Hospital established its Lock Asylum for the Reception of Penitent Female Patients. The disease was an ever-present slur in propaganda like The Whore of Babylon's Pockey Priest, the English anti-popish pamphlet about an infected Catholic priest. Attitudes towards the disease in Catholic Italy were harsh, as Mitelli's images clearly suggest, but redemption was possible. Female sexuality remained the target of policing, and prostitutes remained central in plans to control the disease. The conflict was resolved by the leading eighteenth-century authority on the disease, French physician Jean Astruc, who transported the theory to America, blaming promiscuous women and natives simultaneously.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Sexualitat
- URL
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324 ...
https://books.google.es/books?id=gAK4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA ...
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