The judgment of Paris
2018; Springer Nature; Volume: 53; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/s41409-018-0336-9
ISSN1476-5365
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoThe Merchant of Venice,The judgment of Paris means many different things to different people.The origin of the saying seems to be Greek mythology.The contest between the three beauties, often but not always depicted naked, was said to have initiated the Trojan War.Paris (a Trojan mortal) was asked, by Zeus, to judge who was the most beautiful of the three, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena.Paris was unable to decide so he asked the girls to take off their clothes so that he could get a good look.Aphrodite promised Paris the most beautiful girl in the world, Helen.Unfortunately Helen was the wife of Menelaus and so this was the origin of the Trojan War.The rest, as they say, is history.A different "judgment of Paris" happened in medicine.The first descriptions of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the early 1980s referred to a syndrome known as gay-related immune deficiency.It subsequently became clear that the syndrome could affect heterosexual individuals and the name became AIDS.The syndrome was characterized by profound T-cell deficiency and bizarre infections such as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.Many people developed AIDS after treatment with "factor concentrates" for the treatment of hemophilia and blood transfusions for divers indications.In 1984 the linkage between AIDS and a lentiretroviral infection was made and *
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