ANT220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cogito Ergo Sum, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Scientific Method
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Anthropology has its roots to ancient scholars who wrote about the human condition. Ethnographic descriptions of people they encountered: social encounters. Greek philosopher aristotle; student of plato teacher of alexander. Aristotle created the concept of great chain of being with humans at the top: taxonomy criteria to anthropology. Greek physician hippocrates, a teacher of medicine concept of balance or equilibrium humoral theory of health: blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Roman writer celsius author of text de medicina" on diet, pharmacy, surgery cardinal signs of inflammation calor (temperature), dolo(pain), tumor(swelling), rubor (redness) 14th- 15th century the renaissance more peaceful time in europe improvements in technology make longer sea voyages possible invention of the printing press helped increase amount of people learning important people: Vesalius work on anatomy: tabulae anatomicae" work supported by official who made available the bodies of executed criminals venisection and bleeding techniques.
