John Hunters Self-Experimentation and Legacy in Venereal Disease Research

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Section 1: Introduction Outline Personal Background details of John Hunter Educational background including the time periods Career background of John Hunter The happenings at that time and the people’s beliefs at that time John Hunter’s contribution to medicine and science Section 2: John Hunter and his self-experimentation outline Time period of existence of the self-experimentation of the venereal disease John Hunter involvement and any other parties involved in the experiments and the discoveries Venereal disease at that time The view of the society as long as venereal diseases were concerned John Hunter’s self-infliction of the venereal disease, findings and conclusions Section 3: Modern day connections with John Hunter’s findings outline The changes that have happened since John Hunter’s times as far as STIs are concerned Differences of the venereal diseases during the 18th century and today Similarities of the venereal diseases during the 18th century and today Section 4: Personal view on Johh Hunter’s self-experimentation outline Personal thoughts regarding Hunter’s experimentation Section 5: References List of scholarly articles used in the essay `Brandes, S., & Ferguson, G. (2012). 1039 SELF EXPERIMENTATION AND SELF SACRIFICE TO ADVANCE SCIENCE THE TRUE TALES OF JOHN HUNTER AND WERNER FORSSMANN. The Journal of Urology, 187(4S), e421-e422. Wright, D. J. (1981). John Hunter and venereal disease. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 63(3), 198. Gladstein, J. (2005). Hunter's chancre: did the surgeon give himself syphilis?. Clinical infectious diseases, 41(1), 128-128. Nixon, P. I. (1933). JOHN HUNTER ON VENEREAL DISEASE. Journal of the American Medical Association, 101(10), 796-796. Kaya, Y., & Sindel, A. (2016). John Hunter (1728–1793) and his legacy to science. Child's Nervous System, 32(6), 1015-1017. Rolleston, J. D. (1934). Venereal disease in literature. British Journal of Venereal Diseases, 10(3), 147.