Tag: Medicine

The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis

By Katherine Harvey June 2, 2016 Medieval 0 comments

John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.

Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany

By Mona OBrien March 22, 2016 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.

"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

By Agnes Arnold-Forster August 5, 2014 Medicine and Sexuality 1 comment

Agnes Arnold-Forster The manifesto of Monokini 2.0, a social art project centred on swimwear designed for women who have had a mastectomy, advocates, We think that the current focus on a breast-reconstruction after mastectomy as the only way to a full life, is a breast-fixated way of seeing what a woman […]

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva June 24, 2014 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Marianna Muravyeva Russian history of sexuality is very problematic. We have yet a lot to discover about same-sex relationships, sexual variations and attitudes to various sexual practices on the Russian pathway to modernity. The little we know suggests that one’s sexual identity was subject to close scrutiny from the community, the […]