Book chapter
French Origins Of International Sexual Health Communication With Adolescents
What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.19
University of Massachusetts Press
04/22/2011
Abstract
At the age of seventy, French physician Alfred Fournier turned, in the words of one colleague, his “prudent pen” to adolescents’ risk for sexually transmitted infection.¹ The preeminent syphilologist of his generation, Fournier had become convinced that the secrecy and shame surrounding syphilis were conditions that allowed it to flourish.² It followed that communicating broadly, rather than only with other physicians, was essential to disease prevention. For years he had challenged cultural and professional norms that left the general public, particularly young people, ignorant and consequentially vulnerable to the longterm and even fatal consequences of sexually transmitted infection. His profound
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- French Origins Of International Sexual Health Communication With Adolescents
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.19
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/22/2011
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Programs; Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003009402771
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