The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present / Peter Lewis Allen.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

xxiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sex by prescription : lovesickness in the Middle Ages -- To live outside the camp : medieval leprosy -- The just rewards of unbridled lust : syphilis in early modern Europe -- A broom in the hands of the Almighty : bubonic plague -- The heinous sin of self-pollution : medicine, morals, and masturbation -- AIDS in the U.S.A.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-193) and index.