'The price of the permissive society': The epidemiology and control of VD and STDs in late-twentieth-century Scotland

Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 220-235

  Davidson, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203300510     Document Type: Chapter

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