The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France

by Steven Wilson

Book Overview

While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including degeneracy, depopulation, state surveillance and public morality. In this interdisciplinary study, Steven Wilson redirects attention onto the body as locus of syphilis. Combining a critical medical humanities approach with close readings of medical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781885648
• ISBN13: 9781781885642
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"