ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Venezuelan Hemorrhagic Fever, Mycobacterium Bovis, Biomedical Technology
27 Jan 2017
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Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem: social experiences. Disease biological health problem: universal, often at the root of experience. Skeletal and dental pathology: signs of infection, ancient treatment of disease. Varies from place to place: everyday habits. Mummifying humans and animals is important source of information to look at past. Intentional and natural mummies: tissue samples of humans. The study of disease and injury in the human skeleton and sometimes mummies. Reconstructive: try to reconstruct as best as we can the presence of disease, we have no control and very little idea about which variables were present during the infection. Establish presence of disease based on evidence from skeletal remains. Some variables that affect the expression of disease. Nutritional status: malnutrition more prone to contracting disease. Immune response: strong may not necessarily suffer, may be infected briefly but fight it off.
