Question

When a number of young, gay men in new york, san francisco and los angeles began dying of a mysterious disease in the early 1980's, the public began referring to the disease as "the gay cancer," stigmatizing the disease for doctors and patients. this is an example of:?

Answer 1

The answer is a cultural meaning of illness. In this sense, people perceived the gay cancer is a kind of disease for homosexuals. They based this idea on the number of people dying from the said disease and from the conservative belief that  men and women should be attracted to opposite gender and not the same sex.

Answer 2

This statement is an example "the cultural meaning of illness". When the young, the gay men in san francisco, new york, and los angeles began dying of a mysterious disease in the early 1980's, the public began referring to the disease as "the gay cancer," this is the cultural meaning of illness.