Dangerous liaisons : : a social history of venereal disease in twentieth-century Scotland / / Roger Davidson.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 57
• VerfasserIn: Davidson, Roger, 1942-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 57.; Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 383 pages) :; illustrations.

This book explores the role of Venereal Disease in shaping perceptions of sexuality in twentieth-century Scotland, and in defining the response of the Modern State to patterns of sexual behaviour. It examines how civic, medical and political authorities reacted to the 'Hideous Scourge' in...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Context
• Public Health, Public Morality and VD in Early-Twentieth-Century Scotland
• The Establishment of a VD Service
• ‘The Cinderella Service’: Doctors, Patients and Therapies in Interwar Scotland
• Sin and Suffering: The Moral Agenda of VD Administration, 1918–39
• Images of Social Hygiene: VD Propaganda in Interwar Scotland
• Outcomes: The Impact of Public Health Provisions 1918–39
• ‘A Scourge to be Firmly Gripped’: The Campaign for VD Controls in Interwar Scotland
• Combating ‘The Great Evil’: VD Policy in the Second World War
• ‘The Price of the Permissive Society’: The Incidence and Epidemiology of VD, 1948–80
• ‘A Specialty in Crisis’: The Status and Resourcing of Venereology, 1948–80
• ‘Breaking the Chain of Infection’: Treatment and Control Strategies 1948–80
• Conclusion: VD in the Age of AIDS
• Appendices
• Sources and Select Bibliography.