HISC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marquis De Condorcet, Anatomy Act 1832, Gonorrhea
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William and john hunter: self experimentation. Not sure if either donated bodies to science. John hunter is reputed to have infected himself with gonorrhea and syphilis to determine if they were the same. Backfired scientifically and personally, the person he collected the pus from had both diseases, so hunter had a mistaken hypothesis. Thomas robert malthus: rebelled against hippie parents, went to school in church, rousseau: man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains . Marquis de condorcet: nature has set no term to the perfection of human faculties, the perfectibility of man is truly indefinite, active in the french revolution, but when it lurched violently left in 1792, was arrested. Malthus: essay on the principle of population, welfare payments, laws of supply and demand for food and population, gives supply and demand a biological underpinning, determined that social policy had to obey the laws of utility.
