Skip Navigation

Social History of Medicine 1990 3(2):197-215; doi:10.1093/shm/3.2.197
© 1990 by Society for the Social History of Medicine
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by SMITH, F B
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Articles

The Contagious Diseases Acts Reconsidered

F B SMITH*

*Division of Historical Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University Canberra 2601

SUMMARY The historiography of the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts has been deeply influenced by the opposition's eight general charges against the acts, and by the Antis' attractive and voluminous presentation of their cause. I have tried to test their allegations against the evidence adduced by supporters of the acts and to reconsider the consequences of some of the leading Antis' behaviour. I find the standing of the allegations to be more ambiguous than historians have allowed and the tactics of the leaders to be debatable.

Keywords: Army and navy; Contagious Diseases Acts; extra-Paliamentary agitation; government intervention; lock hospital; medical practitioners; police; prostitution; public morals; ‘scientific’; legislation; sexually transmitted dieases


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.