Book ID: CBB181552412

Toxic Shock: A Social History (2018)

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Vostral, Sharra Louise (Author)


New York University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 229
Language: English

Historian Sharra Vostral's Toxic Shock is the first history of TSS. Vostral shows how commercial interests negatively impacted women's health outcomes; the insufficient testing of the first super-absorbant tampons; and how TSS became a 'women's disease,' for which women must constantly monitor their own bodies. A study at the intersection of public health and social history, this book brings to light the complexities behind a stigmatized and underdiscussed issue in women's reproductive health. Importantly, it warns that as we move forward with joint replacements, implants, and internal medical devices, we must understand the relationship of technology to bacteria and recognize that their interactions within the human body can bring about unexpected, and sometimes deadly, consequences. (Publisher)

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Review Donna J. Drucker (October 2020) Review of "Toxic Shock: A Social History". Technology and Culture (pp. 1261-1263). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
John Aggrey
Abou Traore
Matsuoka, Etsuko
Paige Miller
Pablo Kreimer
Jan Joseph
Concepts
Medicine
Infectious diseases
Women and health
Public health
Disease and diseases
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
England
East Asia
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