Pioneers in medicine and their impact on tuberculosis

unproblematically, continuing on a trajectory set out in the 1880s, as if there were a giant conspiracy to chastise homosexuality through discussions of the homosexual body, then to more psychological markers, and finally back to the body in terms of the genetic arguments about homosexuality that are current today. I am not suggesting that homosexuality was not often spurned by scientists, but for a book purportedly about the construction of medical ideas about homosexuality, focusing solely upon this issue is not good enough. While it is clear that the author is herself obsessed with homosexuality, there is no defined historical motor driving her work except the insistence that medical and scientific discussions of the topic are in some way invalid because they do not sit with the author's own political commitments. The point that would have been interesting to settle is how the medical discourses upon which Terry relies were constructed. The veiled conspiracy theory that she offers misses this mark.