Sexual State

Roger Davidson

abr 2012 · Edinburgh University Press

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This is the first scholarly study of Scotland's sexual coming-of-age in the post-war period, charting its political growth from a deeply moralistic policy framework towards a less judgmental, global and scientific context.

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Dr Gayle Davis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and Chair of the Society for the Social history of Medicine. She has published on the social history of medicine and sexuality, including 'The Cruel Madness of Love': Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 2008). She is also author of A Modern History of the Body, to be published in 2015.