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Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.
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Introduction: The Hidden Affliction: Sexually-Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History - Simon Szreter
PART 1. THE HIDDEN PITFALLS IN THE EARLY DOCUMENTARY RECORD
(The Wrong Kind of) Gonorrhea in Antiquity - Rebecca Flemming
"Poxt and Clapt Together": Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease - Olivia Weisser
PART 2. THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND THE HISTORY OF THE STI MICRO-ORGANISMS
Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Charlotte Roberts
Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Rebecca Redfern
A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Ian N. Clarke
A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Hugh R. Taylor
Chlamydia: A Disease Without A History - Michael Worboys
PART 3. POPULATION DECLINE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Low Fertility - Tim Bayliss-Smith
Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea - Roy F. Scragg
Fertility, STIs and Sexual Behaviour in Early and Mid-Twentieth Century East Africa - Shane Doyle
"A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Janet McCalman
"A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Rebecca Kippen
PART 4. INFERTILITY AND THE SPECTRE OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN MODERN EUROPE
"The Archenemy of Fertility": Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870-1935 - Christina Benninghaus
Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Fabrice Cahen
Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Adrien Minard
Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Simon Szreter
Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Kevin Schürer
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Simon Szreter
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Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.
