PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8, 14: Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Health Professional

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Pukall Caroline F

Document Summary

Treatments varied over the centuries: 1500s onward w/ mercury compounds, fallopio showed condoms could be used to prevent the disease, 1900s onwards w/ arsenic, and w/ antiobiotics in. 1940s penicillin: unethical attempt to study disease in 1932 and 1972: recruited african american men to study natural course of disease, and all treatment was withheld even after knowledge of penicillin, remains problem around world incl. 1980s: age of herpes caused cold sores on one"s genitals. Leading edge of what came to recognized of era of sti viruses incl. Hsp, hpv, hiv: most stis caused by viruses cannot be cured. A brief history of hiv/aids: aids epidemic: 1981 publication of brief article in us disease control"s weekly report concerning unusual infections seen in five same-sex oriented men in la. In reality aids had been spreading for some time: simian immunodeficiency virus, seen in primates, probably source, appears to have crossed from primates to humans in africa multiple times between 1910-