ANTH 6322 Ancient Diseases in Modern Bodies
This course provides an overview of human health and disease in a diachronic and biocultural perspective. It focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to human health, by combining perspectives from evolutionary medicine and paleopathology. This course will examine how evolution might have affected our present-day susceptibility to disease. It will explore the methods and approaches to disease in the past, namely principles of diagnosis of diseases in the skeletal system which is information applied to several fields of anthropology (forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology) and other health-related fields. By targeting paradigmatic diseases (e.g., infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer) this course will explore the interplay between evolutionary, ecological, and cultural factors in shaping individual and populational health.
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As scheduled