Dementia patient Auguste Deter’s contribution to the 1907 single case report study by Alois Alzheimer was immense: Deter’s life, illness and death are the story of Alzeimer’s disease.
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Obesity is out and ‘adipose-based chronic disease’ is in, according to a recent paper. But a name change alone won’t fix entrenched stigma.
The metaphors used to characterize monkeypox can contribute to narratives that help sustain racist, colonial, homophobic and other discriminatory attitudes and beliefs.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Chemistry and Senior Scientist of the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto