DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
25 Jan 2018
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The creation of the term nymphomania is a reflection of the society in earlier centuries. These societies were male driven, and this term was created in order to categorize and control women whose behaviours were not to men"s likings. The proposed cures have to do with the humors and restoring them to equilibrium. Bleeding was said to remove the obstruction and restore harmony to the body, thus curing the disease. Others suggested the removal of the ovaries to stop menstruation. At the end of the nineteenth century, the idea that the brain of the native was more primitive than that of the european became apparent. Due to an innate cerebral inferiority inherent to race, Muslims among north america were seen as equal to the most inferior degenerates" of europe. Some also argued that black people had a brain anatomically more primitive than that of white people.
