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By Suzanne Poirier. 271 pp. Champaign, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1995. $42.50. ISBN 0-252-02147-9.

In 1938, Surgeon General Thomas Parran reported on the status of the campaign against syphilis: "The hampering, ostrich-like attitude toward these diseases is gradually being overcome. When they are brought out into the open, freed from the medieval concept of condign punishment for moral transgressions, and dealt with as are any other highly communicable diseases, the way is open to eradicate them just as we have stamped out other dangerous infections." The United States has always had a difficult time dealing with sexually transmitted diseases, and this book provides an interesting account of one of our more enlightened moments — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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