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By Bryon Lee Grigsby
This publication examines 3 illnesses - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to teach how medical professionals, clergymen and literary authors from the center a long time and during the Renaissance interpreted sure health problems via an ethical clear out. missing wisdom in regards to the transmission of contagious ailments, medical professionals and monks observed epidemic ailments as a punishment despatched by means of God for human transgression. for that reason, their task used to be to correctly learn disease with regards to the sin. via studying diversified readings of particular health problems, this booklet indicates how the social building of epidemic ailments shaped a type of narrative in which guy makes an attempt to take the keep an eye on of the disorder out of God's arms by way of connecting epidemic illnesses to the sins of carnality.
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FROM SOPHROSYNE TO SIN 17 medical tradition through which doctors learned that immorality caused illness can we begin to see the social construction of disease in a variety of discourses. If, for example, one believes that a certain form of moral transgression causes illness, then the only way to alleviate illness is to correct the moral failings of an individual or of a community. In this sense, literature helps to inform people about the consequences of immorality in the hope that people will renounce sin and thereby help to eliminate the epidemic diseases which threaten to destroy the society.
912). The Parson illustrates the belief that certain sins are reflected in the ailments of the body. At times, the body and the body’s humors allow one to slip into the sin of luxury. The remedy is common contrary therapy: the penitent is to practice chastity and continence. Medicine’s involvement with theology shaped the way medieval people looked at disease. The early Church altered the Greco-Roman belief that medicine was part of natural philosophy and spiritualized medicine. Christ and his followers became doctors who were entrusted with the well being both of the bodies and souls they served.
Leprosy afflicts an individual and therefore can be dealt with privately as each case erupts. The leper is the other who has personally sinned against God. In response, God has sent the leper this disease which signifies the leper’s sin and identifies him as a moral and social threat. During the Middle Ages, leprosy represented spiritual sins, particularly pride, envy, avarice or anger. Leprosy gained new venereal associations with the advent of syphilis in the Renaissance. Leprosy, like syphilis, is individuated because the individual leper is justly punished for his or her sin.