Stories
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
- In pictures
Sex and syphilis
Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.
- Article
When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
Catalogue
- Books
Pox : an American history / Michael Willrich.
Willrich, Michael.Date: 2011- Books
Pox : genius, madness, and the mysteries of syphilis / Deborah Hayden.
Hayden, Deborah.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Pox Britannica : smallpox inoculation in Britain, 1721-1830 / Deborah Brunton.
Brunton, Deborah.Date: 1990- Books
Pox Americana : the great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82 / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1959-Date: 2001- Books
Pox, empire, shackles, and hides : the Townsend site, 1670-1715 / Jon Bernard Marcoux.
Marcoux, Jon Bernard.Date: [2010], ©2010