Black Lung Vs, Homosexuality

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Taylor Huston History of Medicine Homosexuality, Black Lung In today’s society, what is the definition of disease? A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. But throughout history, people have given the word different meanings and connected it to various conditions. An example is homosexuality, and another is black lung. Depending who you are you could think they both are “diseases” or neither, or one is and one isn’t. It can be an opinion, maybe factual, but society will eventually determine what the norm ideas are. Emotionally-In regard to comparing homosexuality and black lung you can look at the emotional aspect of the two. Somebody can be labeled a homosexual, and somebody can be diagnosed with black lung. That can have a heavy burden on an individual. No matter whom the person is and what they are labeled, it’s hard to know what they are feeling. From the homosexual stand point, they might be dealing with thoughts such as “why me?” and “is this normal?” When considering the thoughts of somebody diagnosed with black lung, you can expect one to be thinking “this isn’t fair” or “is there anything I can do?” Both sides of the comparison have heavy emotional issues. When homosexuality “made a public appearance” in history, it was known as a “sickness, relabeled, medicalized, or morbidified by Kraft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, and their less famous European and American colleagues.”(Hansen, 14). During this time homosexuality was undergoing a change. The change was the idea that it went “from a form of sexual behavior (a pattern of actions) to a condition (a way of being)” (Hansen, 14). If you consider what patterns of actions are, you wouldn’t think that it had anything to do with a disease. With that in mind you can conclude that diagnosing
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