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Veröffentlichung:	April 2001
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
	African Culture / Asia—History / Asian History / B / Cultural Studies / Ethnic groups and multicultural studies / Ethnic Studies / Ethnicity / Ethnicity Studies / Ethnology—Africa / Health / Health Sciences / History of Medicine / Medicine / Medicine# general issues / Medicine—History / Palgrave History Collection / Popular medicine & health / Popular Science in Medicine and Health / Race and Ethnicity Studies / Social Policy
ISBN:	9780333740446
EAN-Code:	9780333740446
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	St Antony's Series
Dimensionen:	H 224 mm / B 149 mm / D 22 mm
Gewicht:	503 gr
Seiten:	248
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Today AIDS dominates the headlines. A century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis was linked to socio-economic transformation land dispossession, migrancy and urbanisation disrupted social networks - factors similarly important in the AIDS crisis. Medical explanations of syphilis and state medical policy, however, were shaped by contemporary beliefs about race. Doctors drew on ideas from social Darwinism, eugenics, and social anthropology to explain the incidence of syphilis among poor whites and Africans, especially women, and to help define 'normal' and abnormal sexual behaviour for racial groups.