HSS 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sub-Saharan Africa, Gonorrhea, Hypersexuality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2121
• Professor: Louise Edmonds

Document Summary

Medical concept of disease based on the social position of the suffers (eg gays/aids) (cid:455)philis: (cid:862)the g(cid:396)eat pow(cid:863) cause was seen as sin (lesions appeared on the genitalia) 1490s outbreak said that having syphilis would make you go mad or insane: was treated with small bits of mercury then arsenic but no cure. (cid:862)(cid:396)e(cid:374)aissa(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:374)ose jo(cid:271)(cid:863: reconstruction of the nose due to the syphilis breaks the bridge of the nose so they got fake metal ones. Woman were referred to as nymphomaniacs as they were thought to not have a sex drive. In canada, a while back, a man dressed as a woman could have been arrested etc: however, aboriginals that did it thought of as 2 spirited. Syphilis no class barriers to this kind of sti afflicted everyone: called the g(cid:396)eat po(cid:454), the (cid:272)ause was see(cid:374) as (cid:862)si(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) the.