L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture 3: 9-7-16 Age of Epidemics
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General health protection strategies that were meant to control disease that was improved. Endemic disease/condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area: areas where malaria is endemic. Epidemic a spike in a disease in short amount of time. Agriculture allows for increase in granary increase in population, cities. Demography people living in cities are going to be closer and more actively involved in spreading the disease. Spread diseases, bringing new diseases into susceptible areas. Hillel/kosher dietary butchering practices: improved livestock and sanitary preparations, improved health. Removing someone from community and putting them in an institution or shunning them. Ignorancy, rudimentary people: punishing people, scarring them. Stigma disgrace associated with something/ person - synonymous with leprosy: lepers were shunned. Pastoral care spiritual capacity to care for sick. Bacterial infection affecting nervous and respiratory systems. Curable via drug cocktails provided free by who. Lepers can"t go out to market, share with other people. Gross general health protection shunned, isolation.
