
Book review « Christian Bonah, Guillaume Linte and Alexandre Wenger, Maladies infectieuses sans fin. Le cas de la syphilis pour penser la mobilisation-démobilisation prophylactique (XXe–XXIe siècle) »
by Léa Delmaire Book review « Christian Bonah, Guillaume Linte and Alexandre Wenger, Maladies infectieuses sans fin. Le cas de la syphilis pour penser la mobilisation-démobilisation prophylactique (XXe–XXIe siècle) » In: European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, Brill Date: 27 April 2023 https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/aop/article-10.1163-26667711-20230001/article-10.1163-26667711-20230001.xml?ebody=previewpdf-63165 While the advent of biomedicine saw new hope for the eradication of infectious diseases, only in the case of smallpox was this hope fulfilled. Why do some of the diseases for which humanity has found a cure continue to exist and circulate, and even to circulate widely? This book addresses this question through the case study of syphilis and an interdisciplinary perspective on the last century. It explores the reconfigurations of the fight against syphilis, from
