L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Syphilis, Variolation, Book Of Leviticus
15 Sep 2016
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Strategies/techniques/technologies that were vague in application, used to control disease in ways that are imprecise. Historical periods in which ebbs and flows of disease defined population. Agriculture allows for increase graineries, allows for increase population, growth of cities. Demography, because people in cities/close proximity will be more involved in transmitting infectious disease. Travel and trade: slave trade, columbus, etc, bringing new disease into susceptible populations. Religious and cultural practices: what did people do the control these epidemics. Practices that ensured more sanitary environments around animals/health/tradition. Leprosy: 900s to 1200s (dates back to leviticus) from neareast to europeans. Ignorance of leprosy, people didn"t know what it was or how to treat it. Pastoral care: capacity for people to care for the sick. Leprosy is a bacteria, infects nervous and respiratory systems, spread person to person through nasal droplets, curable via antibiotic.
