Minced oath

The film, Miss Evers’ Boys was about an inhumane study of African American men suffering from syphilis. The film evolved around Eunice Evers, a nurse in a local Tuskegee hospital and her statement about the “Tuskegee study”. Dr. Brodus, the head doctor of the local Tuskegee hospital along with Nurse Evers were given fund to treat men with syphilis or what they called “bad blood” (Benedetti, Fishburne, Kavanagh, Konwiser & Sargent, 1997). These men were not very educated, and their health…

Caduceus Symbol In 1902, the Caduceus was adopted and worn in the uniforms of U.S. Army medical officers. The Caduceus is a symbol for doctors and depicted as staff with two snakes wrapped around it with wings. Through its adoption in the 19th century, the Caduceus has been given a role of a symbol of doctor’s around the world, not only does it portray doctor’s, but it conveys the implication of a connection between Hermes, the Greek messenger God, this implicates a subject of sending good…

Many believe that he wrote neither the Corpus or the Oath, however there are many theories and thoughts about who did. Some believe that there was possibly more than one Hippocrates and they were actually all descendants of the original one who just continued to carry on his original theories and works. Other believes that some of students wrote the Corpus and the Oath yet put it under his name to dedicate it to their teacher. The Hippocratic Oath however, was believed to have been taken by…

1), David exhibited another painting that, similarly to “The Oath of the Horatii,” used Roman history to stir revolutionary fervor: “The Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.” David was originally commissioned by the monarchy to paint Coriolanus, an aristocratic leader, being restrained by his family from…

Jacques Louis David was both a genuine artist as well as an apologist and propagandist for violence. Genuine means to be actual, real, or true and David’s art displays this well. David wanted France to snap out of its slow decline into decadence and instead enter a golden age. He believed France could achieve this by striving to be more like the Roman republic. At first, he stood by the side of the royal family, even offering to paint portraits of them. However, when the revolution began to take…

Few artists have had a greater influence upon the course of portraiture and history painting than the French Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. His canvasses evoked heavy emotion simply not found in the preceding frivolous Rococo era, a severity the artist gravitated to as various governments traded off. First, the conflicting grandeur and inequity of Louis XVI’s Ancien Régime, then the tumultuous French Revolution, and finally the magnificently short lived rule of Napoleon. Ultimately,…