Read: Elizabeth Fee, “Sin Versus Science” : Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Baltimore”. IN AIDS: The Burdens of History (1988): 121-146.

Post: In a post of at least 400 words, [Note the reduction in words: 1^st week. Aim high. From now on, try to make your points more succinctly!] address all of the following questions and provide evidence from the sources to support your claims [in other words, you have to cite what you quote/paraphrase from correctly.  Remember to cite the source and the page number.]

Elizabeth Fee argues that while the germ theory of disease offers a biological explanation of the causes of many diseases, to understand how people react to disease and how they have acted to control disease also requires understanding the social aspects of disease. This is necessary for all diseases, but most prominently for Venereal Diseases. Describe the various biomedical and social contexts of venereal disease in 1920s Baltimore. How did the biomedical knowledge shape the social, and how did the social shape the biomedical?