The hidden affliction : sexually transmitted infections and infertility in history / edited by Simon Szreter.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.

viii, 442 pages : black and white ilustrations, charts ; 24 cm.

(The wrong kind of) gonorrhea in antiquity / Rebecca Flemming -- "Poxt and clapt together" : sexual misbehavior in early modern cases of venereal disease / Olivia Weisser -- Bioarchaeological contributions to understanding the history of treponemal disease / Charlotte Roberts and Rebecca Redfern -- A Long-standing evolutionary history between Chlamydia trachomatis and humans : visible, ocular, and invisible genital variants / Ian N. Clarke and Hugh R. Taylor -- Chlamydia : a disease without a history / Michael Worboys -- Population decline in Island Melanesia : Aphrodisian cultural practices, sexually transmitted infections, and low fertility / Tim Bayliss-Smith -- Community infertility in Papua New Guinea : uncovering the role of gonorrhea / Roy F.R. Scragg -- Fertility, STIs, and sexual behavior in early and mid-twentieth century East Africa / Shane Doyle -- "A wise provision of nature for the prevention of too many children" : evidence from the Australian colonies / Janet McCalman and Rebecca Kippen -- "The archenemy of fertility" : gonorrhea and infertility : Germany 1870-1935 / Christina Benninghaus -- Fecundity in a world of scourges : venereal diseases, criminal abortion, and acquired infertility in France, circa 1880-1950 / Fabrice Cahen and Adrien Minard -- Revealing the hidden affliction : how much infertility was due to venereal disease in England and Wales on the eve of the Great War? / Simon Szreter and Kevin Schürer.

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 420-442).