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File Size: 3418 KB
Print Length: 400 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Export Ed edition (August 4, 2008)
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B00ANRUELK
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I bought this book looking for information on the history of syphilis. Instead, I found it to be mostly a lot of theoretical babble about which famous historical figures the author felt probably had syphilis based on a number of wide-ranging symptoms. This, after admitting that syphilis displays 'copycat' symptoms making it look like some other illnesses. Since the original diseases also have those symptoms, the majority of this book is pretty much nothing more than conjecture. So much so that the author appears to have felt compelled to include an introductory chapter attempting to explain this point away (Ch. 7) and a concluding chapter containing some information designed to do the same thing (Ch 21). Plus there's an appendix (A) containing a list of 'Clues to Secret Syphilis' in case you suspect she might be making a lot of out nothing. If you seek a list of people who may or may not have had syphilis based on 'secret' clues the author feels substantiate this, Chapters 1 and 8 - 20 will serve you well. It'll give you some juicy (if still mostly unprovable) ideas to brandish around the water cooler or at cocktail parties.For those seeking historical info, Chapters 2-6 are what you're left with (pages 12-59). They are more topical than historically linear, but they do contain several interesting points. It is the only reason I give this two stars. Unfortunately, they also contain 'shock' comments and not a few inappropriate personal thoughts from the author as well. If you still want to read these, I suggest getting this book via interlibrary loan. For those interested in thorough, linear, history which balances the 'shock' theories and stories (where it includes them) with actual, historical information, I recommend "The History of Syphilis" by Professor Claude Quétel. It's a little more expensive and has a distinctively French bent (being translated from French), but at least it doesn't read like a historical scandal sheet. However, it's off to a Better Worlds Book bin with my copy. (Maybe you can pick it up for cheap in the used section here in Amazon.)
This was a very interesting book. I'd been wanting to read this book for a while. I've been teaching about various Sexually Transmitted Diseases to premed and nursing students, and while I worked on HIV in a lab, my background on other STDs could use a little work. And I admit, I was curious about the disease's impact on all of these men and one woman. The entire book seemed a little off as far as which chapters should be where. I would have started with an explanation of the disease first, and then go into it's history. Hayden did the opposite, which really threw me off. Actually it was halfway through the book that the disease was explained, and there were many bits of information lacking concerning the etiology of the disease.When the author got to the real concern of the book, which was the many people who are thought to have lived and died with this disease...it was more than obvious that the author did her research. She really backed herself up with enough letters and doctor's reports, etc. to make the case for these men having syphilis. It couldn't be that hard to find some DNA left of these guys to check for genetic changes in hair, skin, bedding, etc. to test. So this part of the book was interesting. I felt that most of the people the author was talking about, probably were syphylitics. I'm not sure she proved Beethoven though, and it isn't because I'm a Deaf person who loves his music.It does explain an awful lot about Hitler (though it doesn't excuse it). So this book provides a lot more historical information as concerns these people, and it made me very sad for most of them. But like anything that is speculated about, you cannot say outright, that they had it.Good book, but I think some editor should have rearranged the table of contents a bit...
I am a medical doctor and long-term student of VD in American history. Ms. Hayden has succeeded in a difficult task: writing convincingly about a medical subject when she is not a medical person. She enlisted help from the best of the best, such as my old professor Dr. Eugene Farber, and learned well from their teachings.Without retrospective blood tests, it is impossible to PROVE that a person before 1900 had syphilis, but the combined wisdom of generations of doctors can give us reasonable certainty, and this Ms. Hayden has given us.Some reviewer has asserted that Beethoven could not have had syphilis, because he wrote great music. (Perhaps logic and epistemology are no longer taught in our schools.)I give thumbs up to this book for breaking new ground in an informative and thoroughly researched way.
The book is a well-written exploration of one of the most feared diseases in history. Most of the information about syphilis comes from case histories of famous people and how the disease might explain their lives. It's a wonderful detective story about a disease no one wanted to admit they had.
Factual and intetesting
Very scary.
Very well researched and bold. I found valuable information in it.
Bit slow at times but very interesting, make one amazed we lived as an human race as everyone seems to have been infected.
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