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PubMed2004

A moral emergency and a medical problem: negotiating the control of venereal disease--the Saskatchewan Venereal Disease Protection Act, 1946.

The author examines Saskatchewan legislation that regulated venereal disease. Although venereal disease legislation was introduced in Saskatchewan in 1919, the centrepiece of this article is The Venereal Disease Prevention Act, 1946. In an attempt to understand the nuances of and underlying rationale for these laws, the author situates the legislation within its social context. The author demonstrates that the trends and contradictions apparent in society's approach to the regulation of venereal disease were reflected in the legislation. The concept of a continuum is used to illustrate the coexistence of two approaches to the control of venereal disease. On one side of the continuum, venereal disease was a moral problem and a taboo subject. Force was the key to controlling venereal disease; involuntary examinations and intrusions into people's personal lives were the solution. On the other side of the continuum, venereal disease was a medical problem. If approached rationally and openly, control of venereal disease was possible; through education and social acceptance of venereal disease as just another illness, people would voluntarily come forward for treatment. The approaches represented at the extreme ends of the continuum did not exist in isolation; these views existed simultaneously, producing contradictory and colourful rhetoric.

Coercion↗
PubMed2001

Morality is not a curable disease: probing the history of venereal diseases, morality and prostitution. [Review of: Spongberg, M. Feminizing venereal disease: the body of the prostitute in nineteenth-century discourse, 1997; Fisher, T. Prostitution and the Victorians, 1997; Mooij, A. Out of otherness: characters and narrators in the Dutch venereal disease debates 1850-1990, 1998; Merians, LE. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth century Britain and France, 1996; Brandt, A; Rozin P. Morality and health, 1997; Lewis, M. Thorns on the rose: the history of sexually transmitted diseases in Australia in international perspective, 1998; Lundberg, A. Care and coercion: medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden, 1999].

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PubMed1976

A few tips in treating venereal disease.

Venereal disease is a subject which has been exhaustively covered in the literature. Unfortunately, there are practical problems of diagnosis and treatment which are still not well described.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1977

Behavioural and social characteristics of the patient with repeated venereal disease and his effect on statistics on venereal diseases.

The current study investigated personality characteristics and social circumstances in patients repeatedly infected with venereal diseases. An effort was made to identify characteristics that would differentiate a repeat patient (RP) from a non-repeat patient (NRP). Two studies were carried out. In the first, a group of patients from a venereal disease clinic in a large general hospital was first interviewed and then the patients were asked to complete a questionnaire. In the second study, an attempt was made to validate the findings from the first study by comparing data from RP and NRP venereal disease patients drawn from medical and social case histories from a second hospital. Results of both studies support the hypothesis that repeat patients are different from non-repeat venereal disease patients in terms of social and psychological characteristics. The significance of these findings is discussed.

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