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The history of words is passionate and surprising and it is not uncommon to find terms that originally had a pejorative meaning develop through time towards a mainly positive one. Tolerance, for example, now signifies an essential quality of democracy, but for a long time it signified a humiliating attitude, one tolerated what one could not prevent. Likewise, the adjectives “gothic” and “baroque” were originally contemptuous.
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Delumeau, J. (1999). The Development of the Concept of Personhood. In: Personhood and Health Care. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2572-9_2
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