ANTH 2240 Final: Final Exam Summary
2 Sep 2017
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Studying disease: case study, holistic, comparative, synchronic cross cultural, diachronic over time, evolutionary. Ignaz semmelweis hand-washing : robert koch koch"s postulates. Defenses: skin and digestive tract, entry portals inhale, ingest, skin penetration, person-person. Infection: fever carl wunderlich immune responses innate skin, macrophage: acquired silent, takes 1-2 weeks to kick in, humoral antibodies, cell-mediated t-lymphocytes. Diphtheria: corynebacterium diphtheriae, contact transmission, adherent membrane, endemic, used horse antitoxins developed from an infected animal, russian outbreak due to perestroika, collapsed healthcare, decreased socioeconomic conditions. Antibiotics: penicillin penicillium notatum, streptomycin streptomyces griseus infectivity proportion of people exposed who become infected, pathogenicity proportion of people infected who develop clinical disease, virulence proportion of people with clinical disease that die. Generalizations: fear and anxiety flight, denial, scapegoating: underestimate severity, quarantine is ineffective (usually, shortage of physicians and nurses, expensive rational policy established. Yfv: social significance of acquired immunity, power of observation, population pyramid seen come 1834, cool temperatures ended the epidemic.
