The Hidden Affliction Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History
Simon Szreter, "The Hidden Affliction: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History "
English | ISBN: 1580469612 | 2019 | 450 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis-"the pox"-gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject across more than two thousand years of human history.