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Question 1 (3 points)

(Group 1 Readings)  Religion was an important early element in how people understood and responded to STI/STDs. However, European civic authorities also devised a number of responses to address the spread of syphilis and gonorrhea prior to the development of modern medical interventions in the 19th century.

Please summarize 2 different secular--that is, non-religious--strategies that were implemented before 1799 in Europe.  Include approximate dates and the city or country where each intervention was practiced or imposed, and remember to indicate (by author and, if available, page number) the assigned readings informing your answer.

If you wish, add a sentence or two offering an analysis/opinion regarding these responses.

Question 2 (3 points)

(Group 1 Readings)  Primary source analysis*: Consider the pictures included in “A Quick Overview of Syphilis” and the literary excerpts included in pages 52-53 and 67-71 from Quetel’s History of Syphilis and use them to support your discussion of one or two common themes which recur in several different visual and or literary contexts.

Note: Your understanding of the historical sources will be informed by the text accompanying them, but be sure to paraphrase or quote if your analysis echoes ideas/words in those discussions. In partial answer to the question, you could write something like: As Quetel points out on page 53, (your paraphrase of his words here).

NOTE: I know this question can be troubling for folks who aren't used to analyzing images or poetry, but it’s meant to be pretty straightforward. For historians, such cultural representations provide a direct connection to how people were thinking and communicating about the disease as they were confronting it. I'm asking you to find examples from the images and poetry in the readings to illustrate contemporaneous insights about the disease.

So--what did a body with the disease look like? How did people behave in reaction? How does the evidence indicate what they thought about the causes? and so on. See what you can discover from the primary sources, and then briefly explain what you've found and what it indicates about people's understanding of, and responses to, these illnesses.

*Because the images and poetry/prose date from the time period they reflect, they are considered primary sources (as opposed to secondary sources, which include history textbooks, or Quetel's book when taken as a whole, as it incorporates his interpretation and analysis of the primary evidence he presents.