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Critical Introduction - The Meaning
of Sexual Health |
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What is Sexual Health?
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Medicine and Morality
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The present power of medical experts as
moral arbiters did not result from some
dark conspiracy. It was more or less
forced upon them by the larger social
changes taking place in modern times.
These changes gradually weakened the
influence of the church and created
a moral vacuum that only medical science
could fill.
There is no better illustration of this
than our modern question: "What is
sexual health?" In earlier centuries we
would have asked instead: "What is moral
virtue?" |
