| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2 | The History Cooperative

*Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition*. By Thomas P. Lowry. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xvi + 117 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95; £16.95.)
If you are looking for an initiation into the topic of venereal disease and the Voyage of Discovery, this little book is it. If you are already a fan of the topic, Lowry's material and data are well composed and contain sufficient information to keep the reader involved.	1
This is a short book, and a pleasant read. Lowry's preface and introduction describe the issues of sexuality and sexually-transmitted diseases in the culture of the expedition, and the resulting disease burden. He captures the reader with compelling descriptions of the sexual "burning obsessions" of our country's founders and the struggle between the reactionary Great Awakening and the radical Enlightenment movements of the eighteenth century, relating them to the "cycle of alternating liberality and conservatism in our own public life" (pp. 1 and 2).	. . .

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