ANTH 4322 Ancient Diseases in Modern Bodies
This course provides an overview of human health and disease in a diachronic and bicultural perspective. It focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to human health by combining perspectives from evolutionary medicine and paleopathology. This course examines 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 disease in the skeletal system which is information applied to several fields of anthropology (forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology) and other health-related fields.
Prerequisite
Six hours of anthropology (ANTH).
Offered
every other spring