The Wages of Sin Sex and Disease, Past and Present
- List Price: $28.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/2000
Throughout history, Western society has often viewed sickness as a punishment for sin. It has failed to prevent and cure diseases -- especially diseases tied to sex -- that were seen as the retribution of a wrathful God. The Wages of Sin, the remarkable history of these diseases, shows how society's views of particular afflictions often heightened the suffering of the sick and substituted condemnation for care. Peter Allen moves from the medieval diseases of lovesickness and leprosy through syphilis and bubonic plague, described by one writer as "a broom in the hands of the Almighty, with which He sweepeth the most nasty and uncomely corners of the universe". More recently, medical and social responses to masturbation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and AIDS in the twentieth round out Allen's timely and erudite study of the intersection of private morality and public health. The Wages of Sin tells the fascinating story of how ancient views on sex and sin have shaped, and continue to shape, religious life, medical practice, and private habits.
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