Anthropology 2238A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reading Railway Station, Biochemical Cascade, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
25 Aug 2020
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Lecture five notes: most emphasis on what is mentioned in both, some specific to each. 75 multiple choice questions: less anatomy questions because we already had quiz, nothing super specific for anatomy ex. identify that bone. Many consider this easier to define than health; often easier to define abnormalities. Disease: abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, and is associated with specific symptoms: external factors infectious disease, internal factors autoimmune disease. Health and disease occur on a continuous/relative scale (not and either or), both at the individual and population level. Concept of stress: endocrinologist hans seyle experiments, universal non-specific stress response found in all organisms he studied, stressor/insult/noxious stimuli caused a state of stress (the. Prior to the 1950s, stress had none of its modern connotations that it does today. Cannon (1914) was one of the first researchers to look at stress fight of flight.
