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Condom Nation
Alexandra M. Lord
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Description for Condom Nation
Public Health Service's involvement in sex education provides new insights into one of the most contested subjects in America. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21, 21 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; MBNH4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
This history of the U.S. Public Health Service's efforts to educate Americans about sex makes clear why federally funded sex education has been haphazard, ad hoc, and often ineffectual. Since launching its first sex ed program during World War I, the Public Health Service has dominated federal sex education efforts. Alexandra M. Lord draws on medical research, news reports, the expansive records of the Public Health Service, and interviews with former surgeons general to examine these efforts, from early initiatives through the administration of George W. Bush. Giving equal voice to many groups in America-middle class, working class, black, ... Read more
This history of the U.S. Public Health Service's efforts to educate Americans about sex makes clear why federally funded sex education has been haphazard, ad hoc, and often ineffectual. Since launching its first sex ed program during World War I, the Public Health Service has dominated federal sex education efforts. Alexandra M. Lord draws on medical research, news reports, the expansive records of the Public Health Service, and interviews with former surgeons general to examine these efforts, from early initiatives through the administration of George W. Bush. Giving equal voice to many groups in America-middle class, working class, black, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893803
SKU
V9780801893803
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About Alexandra M. Lord
Alexandra M. Lord received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She previously served as a historian with the U.S. Public Health Service.
Reviews for Condom Nation
Lord, a public health historian, argues that the U.S. government has spent the past 90 years trying to give Americans frank sex education, but the power of religious groups and Americans' own squeamishness in admitting to having premarital sex has thwarted public health officials for nearly all of that time. Publishers Weekly 2009 Lively historical account... Lord is particularly enlightening ... Read more