Syphilis

Professor Dr. Andrew P. Zbar MD (Lond) MBBS FRCS (Ed) FRACS FSICCR (Hon)Department Neuroscience and Anatomy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AustraliaThe author completed medicine in 1978 at the University of Melbourne and trained as a specialist surgeon in Australia and the United Kingdom. Went on to complete a doctorate in immunology at London University (Imperial College) and then was Professor of Surgery at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Barbados (2002-2007) and then Professor of Surgery in Israel until 2015Director of the Diploma of Anatomy University of Otago 2016/ Senior Tutor Undergraduate and Postgraduate Anatomy University of Melbourne 2016-Present

• Announcing the Disease: A Brief Chronology of Syphilitic Events.- Fracastoro’s Poem and the Origins of Illness.- The Protean Manifestations of Disease.- In Search of the Organism and a Zauberkügel (Magic Bullet) for Treatment.- Notable Victimhood: Syphilis and the Arts.- Syphilitic Politics: Ethical Breaches, the Tuskegee Experiment and Beyond.- Syphilocentricity in Brief: Disease in the Post-HIV Era.