[BPS1101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (37 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Science: collect facts, draw conclusions based on those facts, test your conclusions in several ways. Magic (superstition: draw the conclusions you want, avoid testing or challenging your conclusions. Approximately 30-35 years for most of recorded history. Approximately 30-35 years through the stone age: 500,000 6000 years. Approximately 82 years in 2009 (canada: most improvements over the last 150 years, world average is 66. 1900: 44 years, main cause of death; 2009: 82 years, main cause of death; Throughout human history, humans were sick for most or all of their lives. Much rarer in society now, but was once common place. Throughout ottawa we can still find old outhouses underground. Sewers are open in third world countries, and less in first world. Used to pick up dead bodies of family members or friends and bring them outside to be picked up to be carried to the cemetery. All water must be boiled if it does not go through a filtration system.