British Social Hygiene Council

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British Social Hygiene Council (BSHC, until 1925 the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, NCCVD) was a British organization dedicated to eradicating venereal diseases and educating the public about them. [1] [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1914. [5] [6]

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History

National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (NCCVD) was founded in 1914, just days before the beginning of World War I. [7] Its members include doctors, scientists, psychologists, sociologists and 'muscular Christians.' It got government funding until 1929. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Bond, C. J. (1925-07-11). "British Social Hygiene Council". British Medical Journal. 2 (3367): 88. ISSN   0007-1447. PMC   2226850 .
  2. ↑ Weatherall, R. (1947-12-01). "British Social Hygiene Council: International School in Social Biology". Nature. 160 (4075): 803–804. Bibcode:1947Natur.160..803W. doi: 10.1038/160803a0 . ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   20273002.
  3. ↑ Scoggins, Ann (1977). "The Influence of the British Social Hygiene Council on the Development of Social Biology and Its Subsequent Introduction Into the Educational Curricula". Biology and Human Affairs.
  4. ↑ Davidson, Roger (2000-01-01). Images of Social Hygiene: VD Propaganda in Interwar Scotland. Brill. ISBN   978-90-04-33331-4.
  5. ↑ Horder; Walker, Kenneth M.; Nabarro, David; Rorke, Margaret; Shiels, T. Drummond (1935-03-23). "Youth and Social Hygiene". British Medical Journal. 1 (3872): 619. ISSN   0007-1447. PMC   2459955 .
  6. ↑ SHIELS, T. DRUMMOND (1934). "Citizenship in Relation to Social Hygiene". The Journal of State Medicine. 42 (2): 76–83. ISSN   2633-5468. JSTOR   45208209.
  7. ↑ Zimmerman, Jonathan (2016-09-13). Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-17366-5.
  8. ↑ Manderson, Lenore (1996-06-13). Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-56008-5.
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