IDST 4512 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eurocentrism, Germ Theory Of Disease, Epidemiological Transition
14 Sep 2017
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Different kinds of goods that were being shipped around the world could be vectors. Historically, one reason for public health measures was to make sure that slaves were just healthy enough to continue working. Public health policy is explicitly tied to colonialism and exploitation or labour. Deep history of global health george armegalos, medical anthropologists/epidemiologist suggested three key points of disease transmission . Monica green, historian of health: argues that pathogens have always had histories, and have been shaped by migration as well as social and cultural developments. First key point of transmission: 10,000 years ago the first epidemiological transition began with the evolution of agriculture and settled societies domestication of crops, sedentism, domestication of animals allowed infectious diseases to flourish amongst humans. There is evidence that diseases like tuberculosis and malaria already existed before settlement began, but it spread with much more ease after settlement occurred.
