LitArk » Books » Romance novel

Gerd Gross (editor) - Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Here you can read online Gerd Gross (editor) - Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2011, publisher: Springer Verlag, genre: Romance novel. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Book:
Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Author:
Gerd Gross editor / Stephen K Tyring editor
Publisher:
Springer Verlag
Genre:
Books / Romance novel
Year:
2011
Rating:
4 / 5
Favourites:
Add to favourites
Your mark:
- 80
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Description
Author's other books
Similar books

Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

This comprehensive, up-to-date reference book is intended to serve as the standard guide in the field. It covers the epidemiology and etiology of the various sexually transmitted infections and associated diseases, reviews novel diagnostic methods, and discusses in depth both new and established treatment methods. An important part of the book is devoted to prevention and particularly to immunoprevention by vaccination. Related issues such as sexual abuse, psychosocial aspects, and economic and political considerations are also included. The expertise of many worldwide renowned specialists and superb color illustrations make this book a valuable resource for practitioners from a variety of medical disciplines. It has a reader-friendly structure with core messages and take-home pearls.

Gerd Gross (editor): author's other books

Who wrote Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Part 1
BASIC ELEMENTS

Gerd E. Gross and Stephen K. Tyring (eds.) Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases 10.1007/978-3-642-14663-3_1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011

1. History of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Michael Waugh 1

(1)

Nuffield Hospital, 151, Roker Lane, LS28 9ND Leeds, UK

Michael Waugh Emeritus Consultant Genitourinary Physician, General Infirmary, Consultant Genito-urinary Medicine

Email:

Abstract

A basic knowledge of the history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is important not only for professionals but also for the general public. This knowledge enables the reader to understand the development of STIs, which have had such an enormous impact on the behaviour and health of the human race. This history has been studied and written about by medical and general historians for 500 years.

1.1 Core Messages

A basic knowledge of the history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is important not only for professionals but also for the general public.
This knowledge enables the reader to understand the development of STIs, which have had such an enormous impact on the behaviour and health of the human race. This history has been studied and written about by medical and general historians for 500 years.
STIs have been described since the beginning of recorded history in Europe and Asia, in handwritten manuscripts until the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1454. The history of STIs for the next 500 years followed the growth of medical and scientific discoveries and thus knowledge. STIs were affected by many human activities: travel, trade, war, colonial expansion, migration, industrialization, increasing public education, prostitution, the emancipation of women, slaves, and men who have sex with men.
This chapter describes the history of STIs from the ancient times of gonorrhoea, into the era of syphilis and all the other sexually transmitted diseases, and now HIV/AIDS.

1.2 Definition

In this chapter, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is defined as an infection passed from one person to another as a result of a sexual act. This definition includes sequelae passed from an infected mother to a child (congenital infection).

1.3 Aims

This chapter aims to give a concise history of STIs from ancient to modern times. It comprises the following historical eras:

The ancient times prior to the outbreak of syphilis in sixteenth-century Europe.

The development of the concept of venereal diseases (VD) until nineteenth century.

The development of a scientific basis for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) from the nineteenth century.

The impact on society before and after the discovery of AIDS.

Scientific achievements since the advent of chemotherapy.

1.4 Sexually Transmitted Infections in Ancient Times

There are records of STIs most notably urethral discharge that was probably gonorrhoea from the earliest times [].

During the Middle Ages in Europe, advances in the knowledge of gonorrhoea were made. Roger of Salerno (1180) and William of Salicet (121077) wrote on the causality and natural history of gonorrhoea; John of Gaddesden (12801361) recognised urethritis, epididymitis and vaginitis [].

Other STIs, including scabies and pediculosis pubis, have also been recognised since ancient times [].

1.5 The Development of the Concept of Venereal Diseases Prior to the Nineteenth Century

The Renaissance showed that any change in medical knowledge is as much influenced by outside social, geopolitical and economic forces as it is from within medicine [].

The Columbian (Americanist) view is that syphilis was acquired by the sailors of Christopher Columbus and spread after 1493 through Europe [], who emphasized the evolutionary relationships of yaws, pinta, endemic syphilis, and sporadic syphilis. He regarded them as variants of the same disease that originated in sub-Saharan Africa.

There is a great amount of literature not only on syphiliss effect in Italy [], had been described.

However, some controversies surrounded syphilis for many years. The Diet of Worms (7th August 1495) was the first printed document to mention this new severe disease: There have been severe diseases and plagues of the people, to wit bsen Blattern which have never occurred before nor been heard of within the memory of man [].

However, the venereal origins of syphilis were quickly realised and bluntly stated by Andrew Boord in 1547: It may come when one pocky person doth synne in lechery the one with another. All the kyndes of the pockes be infectiouse [].

Cautery of the primary sore was also utilised as treatment, as shown on contemporary watercolours [].

Jean Fernel (15061588) rejected the Galenic concept that genital lesions were secondary to humoral disorders arising in the liver. He taught that morbus Gallicus was caused by a virus usually acquired through intercourse. He stated that midwives may contract it through the hand and the wet nurse through her nipple. He also noted that oral and anal moist lesions were contagious and that the virus could not pass through intact skin. He taught about a long incubation period, prolonged latency, and exacerbations. He also referred to lues venerea- venereal plague (De lues venereae curatione perfectissimo, 1556) [] thought they were separate.

Lancisi (16541720) posthumously correlated dilatation of the heart with syphilis aneurysma gallicum in 1728 []. He provided clinical descriptions of several conditions, including genital herpes, condylomata acuminata, phimosis, and balanoposthitis.

Van Swieten (17001772), a pupil of Boerhaave called to Vienna after 1749, popularised more liberal treatment of syphilitics, as well as the introduction of graduated dosage with mercury to prevent side effects such as oversalivation (ptyalism), the shakes (tremors), and renal disease [].

John Hunter (17281793) wrote A Treatise on the Venereal Disease in 1786, but it was not one of his best works. His error was to adhere to the monist doctrine. In an experiment in 1767, he tried to prove that gonorrhoea and syphilis had a single cause. Gonococcal pus was inoculated onto the prepuce and glans penis. Unfortunately, the inoculum was chosen from a patient suffering from syphilis as well as gonorrhoea. As the inoculum was not put in the urethra, no gonorrhoea, only syphilis, resulted. This caused the faulty deduction that the result depended on the nature of the surface of the inoculumgonorrhoea for moist surfaces and ulceration for a cutaneous surface [] used 2,500 inoculation experiments performed between 18311837 to show conclusively that gonorrhoea and syphilis were different diseases (Trait Pratique des Maladies Vnriennes). Although ethical standards in those days were different, when others in France tried similar experimentation on patients, cases were taken before the courts.

After the French Revolution, postreform medical teaching had an immense impact globally []or that secondary syphilis was contagious. His pupils, such as Paul Diday and Alfred Fournier (18321914), were worthy successors to his school and its teaching traditions.

There were some other smaller advances in knowledge in those times. In 1814, Thomas Batemans fourth edition of A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Disease described Herpes praeputalis [].

1.6 The Development of a Scientific Basis for Sexually Transmitted Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases»

Look at similar books to Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Shannon Dowler

Never Too Late: Your Guide to Safer Sex after 60

S. R. Prabhu (editor)

Sexually Transmissible Oral Diseases

Dawn Harper

Dr Dawns Guide to Sexual Health

Jacqueline Parrish

Coping with Sexually Transmitted Diseases

E. James Lieberman M.D.

Like It Is: A Teen Sex Guide

Antonio Cristaudo

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Advances in Understanding and Management

Ian Howie-Willis

VD: The Australian Armys experience of sexually transmitted diseases during the twentieth century

Gowen

Sexual decisions: the ultimate teen guide

Alberto Rosenblatt

Male Genital Lesions: The Urological Perspective

Mauro Romero Leal Passos

Atlas of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Clinical Aspects and Differential Diagnosis

Paul Quinn

Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Your Questions Answered (Q&A Health Guides)

Baumle

International handbook on the demography of sexuality

Reviews about «Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases»

Discussion, reviews of the book Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.