BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Strong Poison, Improved Sanitation, Ebers Papyrus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Google is a good source of info, we can look up the info ourselves. Media sites are bad; they exist to sell advertisements with a lot of misleading information. Drug websites are good because it"s heavily regulated and are careful about the information. We live in a unique time and place where the current life expectancy is higher than any other time in history. We"re living at the maximum age a human will probably be able to live. The life expectancy has been 30 35 for most of recorded history (last 6000 years) The life expectancy has been 30-35 for the stone age (last 500000 6000 years ago) The life expectancy is 82 years in canada, with most improvements in life span in the past 150 years, 150 years ago, the age expectancy was around the same as stone age.