Davidson R., Hall L. (eds.) Sex, Sin and Suffering. Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

London: Routledge, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0415510783; ISBN13: 978-0415510783.This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how such responses reflected and shaped social attitudes towards sexuality and social relationships of class, gender, generation and race.Syphilis and prostitution: a regulatory couplet in nineteenth-century France
Passing the 'Black Judgement': Swedish social policy on venereal disease in the early twentieth century
'The shadow of contagion': gender, syphilis and the regulation of prostitution in the Netherlands, 1870-1914
Doctors, social medicine and VD in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Spain
'The Fatherland is in Danger, Save the Fatherland!': venereal disease, sexuality and gender in Imperial and Weimar Germany
Visions of sexual health and illness in revolutionary Russia
Venereal diseases and society in Britain, from the Contagious Diseases Acts to the National Health Service
'The thorns of love': sexuality, syphilis and social control in modern Italy
Public health, venereal disease and colonial medicine in the later nineteenth century
Health and Empire: Britain's national campaign to combat venereal diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore
Venereal disease, sexuality and society in Uganda
Women, venereal disease and the control of female sexuality in post-war Hamburg
'The price of the permissive society': the epidemiology and control of VD and STDs in late-twentieth-century Scotland
Sexually transmitted disease policy in the English National Health Service, 1948-2000: continuity and social change