Despite the advancements medicine has made since the time of Hippocrates, it is evident that there are themes that never take a permanent leave from medical theory and how illness is perceived and treated. The themes include, but are not limited to: the use of heroic remedies, the use of religion to explain the cause of disease, and marginalized people denied aid. There is no argument that science has improved the lives of nearly everyone in some way shape or form. Regardless of the clear evidence that it is needed in medicine, there are still times when it is neglected in treating disease. New drugs are continually being produced for a plethora of ailments; however, the public is not always as safe from them as it would like to believe. There
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We still seem to have this idea that people are poor because they are morally degenerate, not the other way around. Back when cholera was a major threat in urban areas, the wealthy looked down on the unfortunate with no compassion. They didn’t understand that by aiding these people the diseases would become less common; Louis Villlerme had stated that the flow of disease could only be stopped by a moral regeneration of the poor, disregarding the fact that if these people could live better lives, most would. The AIDs epidemic around the world is …show more content…
From the evidence provided by Paul Farmer, this is due at least in part because of a low economic status. In a summary of the first three people to contract HIV in the small village of Do Kay Farmer saw that, “In all three cases the declining fortunes of the rural poor pushed young adults to try their chances in the city. Once there, all three became entangled in unions that the women, at least, characterized as attempts to emerge from poverty” (Famer, Infections and Inequalities, 133). If these people, and many others like them, had not found themselves desperate for economic stability, they may never have become HIV positive. These people are no less promiscuous than the average American, yet we infer that they must be lewd since so many have tested
We still seem to have this idea that people are poor because they are morally degenerate, not the other way around. Back when cholera was a major threat in urban areas, the wealthy looked down on the unfortunate with no compassion. They didn’t understand that by aiding these people the diseases would become less common; Louis Villlerme had stated that the flow of disease could only be stopped by a moral regeneration of the poor, disregarding the fact that if these people could live better lives, most would. The AIDs epidemic around the world is …show more content…
From the evidence provided by Paul Farmer, this is due at least in part because of a low economic status. In a summary of the first three people to contract HIV in the small village of Do Kay Farmer saw that, “In all three cases the declining fortunes of the rural poor pushed young adults to try their chances in the city. Once there, all three became entangled in unions that the women, at least, characterized as attempts to emerge from poverty” (Famer, Infections and Inequalities, 133). If these people, and many others like them, had not found themselves desperate for economic stability, they may never have become HIV positive. These people are no less promiscuous than the average American, yet we infer that they must be lewd since so many have tested