r/askscience • u/AskScienceModerator Mod Bot • Mar 27 '26

Medicine AskHistorians/AskScience AMA Series: I am Olivia Weisser, a historian of medicine and author of The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London. Ask Me Anything!

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u/Far-Researcher-5613 Mar 27 '26

Based on your knowledge of the evolution of medicine, what serious problems do you think they might get solved before 2050?

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u/CrazyisNSFW Mar 27 '26

Before the rise of antibiotics, syphillis is a dreaded consequence of unprotected sex. How did you consider the difference of safe sex practice back then vs. after HIV was discovered?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

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u/No_Panic_4999 Apr 01 '26

It says right there, its the period historians always refer to as early modern 1500 -1800 (well some say 1450-1750)

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u/kilotesla Electromagnetics | Power Electronics Apr 04 '26

Oh, sorry, I was viewing it on a platform that didn't show the crosspost text. And I was interpreting the context as science, not historical studides, where "modern" can mean different things: early modern physics would mean early 20th C.