L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Microbiological Culture, Louis Pasteur, Antiseptic
15 Sep 2016
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You could be in the same room with a patient near death and emerge unscathed. But, somehow, you could avoid direct contact altogether with the infected person and yet still be seized with the cholera, simply because you lived in the same neighborhood. Snow grasped that solving the mystery of cholera would lie in reconciling these two seemingly contradictory facts. **if it"s the small, why doesn"t everyone get cholera. James lind- black death of the sea clinical study, origins of epidemiology, imperative find what"s causing scurvy and mass deaths at sea. Fruits and veg diet: no vitamin c. Epidemiology: causes and modes of transportation of disease. India (1817, 25 million deaths), moscow (1829, 33,000 deaths), england (1831, 130,000 deaths), paris (1832, 18,000 deaths, 2% of population) Cholera was ethnicized/racialized, colonization, global north v global south and associations with colonization activities indian people carried the disease- india was england"s colony; india was cast as threatening.
