Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma

Susan Lemar graduated with a PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2001. She is currently an Australian Commonwealth Public Servant working in education policy, having previously worked in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide. Her publications include the articles “Politics and Public Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Adelaide” in History Matters (2006), “Locating Adelaide Eugenics: Venereal Diseases and the South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild 1911-1914” in Journal of Australian Studies (2004), and “Boy Labour, Employment and Apprenticeship in South Australia 1875-1917: ‘A case of roll up your sleeves and go to work’” in Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia (2003), among others.