The Pathology of STDs: 3 Classic Books on Sexual Diseases
Classic Medical, Social, and Dramatic Perspectives on Venereal Disease, Stigma, and ReformBy Robert James Culverwell, Jean Paul Marat, Upton Sinclair, Eugà ̈ne Brieux
Length13h 21m
About this audiobook
The Pathology of STDs gathers three historically consequential texts that confront sexually transmitted disease as a medical condition, a social crisis, and a moralized public question. Moving among clinical exposition, political argument, naturalist social critique, and drama, the volume reveals how disease narratives exceeded the clinic to shape debates about sexuality, marriage, poverty, stigma, and public responsibility. Its most striking passages turn instruction and diagnosis into urgent appeals for candor, prevention, and institutional reform. The contributors represent distinct but convergent currents in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American intellectual life. Their backgrounds in medicine, revolutionary journalism, socially engaged literature, and the modern problem play bring markedly different rhetorical resources to the subject. Together, these voices illuminate the emergence of social hygiene discourse and the wider reform movements that challenged silence around venereal disease. The collection also preserves the tensions of its period: between scientific observation and moral judgment, private suffering and collective welfare, and inherited prejudice and demands for humane intervention. Recommended for readers of medical humanities, social history, theater, and reform literature, this anthology offers an unusually broad encounter with the cultural history of sexual disease. Its compact range of genres invites comparison across perspectives while demonstrating how literary form can inform public-health consciousness. Readers will find both valuable historical evidence and a sustained dialogue about stigma, knowledge, and social care.
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GenreHealth and Wellness, Literary Classics
Length13 hrs 21 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Damaged Goods
2Damaged Goods
3PREFACE
4CHAPTER II
5CHAPTER IV
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6CHAPTER V
7Reprint of Two Tracts
8Reprint of Two Tracts
9INTRODUCTION
10Porneiopathology
11PREFACE.
12GENERAL REMARKS. (pt. 1)
13GENERAL REMARKS. (pt. 2)
14ORIGIN OF THE VENEREAL DISEASE.
15OF SYPHILIS.
16OF BUBOES.
17ON LUES VENEREA, OR SECONDARY SYMPTOMS.
18OF THE SYMPTOMS OF THE FIRST STAGE OF LUES.
19SECONDARY SYMPTOMS.
20SYPHILITIC LEPRA.
21NODES AND PAINS IN THE BONES.
22SYPHILITIC SORE THROAT.
23ADVICE TO INVALIDS.
24STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, AND DISEASES, OF THE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION.
25DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND THE USE OF THE SPECULUM.
26GONORRHŒA IN THE FEMALE.
27SYPHILIS IN FEMALES.
28LEUCORRHŒA, FLUOR ALBUS, OR THE WHITES
29EFFECTS OF INCONTINENCE, CELIBACY, AND MARRIAGE.
30THE HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE.
31IMPUISSANCE, OR IMPOTENCE.
32OTHER FORMS OF SEXUAL DEBILITY.
33ON PILES OR HŒMORRHOIDS.
34PROLAPSUS OF THE RECTUM.
35STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM.
36THE URINE.
37ON INCONTINENCE OF URINE.
38THE GRAVEL.
39FORMULÆ
40Footnote
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