CT203 Lecture 3: Revolutions
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Paleolithic: human origins origin of agriculture, hunter-gatherer-fishers, healthy, likely free of infectious disease, death by starvation and trauma. 10,000-3,000 abp: initially very healthy, early reduction in quality of diet and quality of life, reduced risk of starvation, deaths by infectious disease. 18 th century europe and north america: few infectious disease epidemics. Increase in wages and food stuffs (diets, manufactured foods: rise of chronic, degenerative diseases. Emerging and re-emerging infectious disease in west (e. g. , Hiv/aids, tb: today we don"t have enough infectious disease specialists because we have not seen the eradication of infectious diseases. Infectious/chronic/emerging infectious disease in developing world (e. g. , africa, india)
