Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Social Hygiene Bulletin
Author: The Social Hygiene Bulletin
Author: Journal of Social Hygiene
Author: American Social Hygiene Association Bulletin
Author: The American Social Hygiene Association Bulletin
Author: Social Hygiene
Author: A List of Current Periodicals
Author: John Crerar LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Weekly Bulletin
Author: New York (N.Y.). Dept. of HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
For Business and Pleasure
Author: Mara Laura KeirePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.