CAS AN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jared Diamond, Neolithic Revolution, Biomedicine
30 Oct 2018
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47very basic improvements of everyday life i e sanitation been the key driving force in improving health western biomedicine was not main factor cream water etc hav. 47 hunter gatherers foragers sedentarized agricultural lifestyle re disease trade offs. Epidemiologic transitions diseases in that affect a group a major shift of people. Revolution food gathering to preproductionsociety moving protects health. Nomadic small populations wide variety of food cultural norms values. Eisantiagiangegamarian gathering is key hygeine foodproduction parasiticdisease productionsociety endemicdisease sedentary human waste9sanitation reduces variety of foods leadsto famine poornutrition pair agitato animals largerpopulations urbanizedidense social stratification agriculturalproduction new kinds of exposure stress infectious. 47pre 19th c i highmortalityrates birthrates couldn"tkeepup 1requirementof. Rise of chronic and degenerative disease migration trade new disease. 9thc shift from infectious disease to chronic degenerative. Yinn hands water purification infantlchildmortality better nutrition longer birth interval. 3 now more infectious diseases and anti biotic resistent disease. Ethnomedical systems all societies their systems of knowledge us systems.
