By Vernon A. Rosario
ISBN-10: 1576072819
ISBN-13: 9781576072813
Homosexuality and Science is the compelling historical past of this severe, ongoing medical controversy. the tale starts within the Victorian period, while medical professionals have been horrified to find that homosexuality, which they referred to as "sexual perversion" was once widespread—probably the results of early life masturbation, they theorized, and certain to bring about psychological weak spot and blindness for generations to come back. the tale progresses to a global the place homosexual, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual scientists are occupied with sexuality study, yet the place the AIDS pandemic has given upward thrust to "reparative treatment" and ministries that declare to "cure" homosexuality.
This high-interest identify exhibits how our figuring out of homosexuality has been formed not just by way of theories of evolution, eugenics, endocrinology, neurobiology, molecular biology, psychology, genetics, anthropology, and sexology, but in addition by means of the values of the times.
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Morel (1809–1873) was an abandoned child raised by priests, who struggled to put himself through medical studies. ” It was an all too common form of congenital mental retardation accompanied by characteristically coarse facial features. ” Morel studied cretins and became convinced that the condition was incurable. In his influential Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Species (1857), Morel proposed that cretinism was just one manifestation of a broader class of hereditary disorders that were the result of environmental toxins, poor climate, and alcohol or other substance abuse.
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