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ANTH 354
Anthropology of Infectious Disease
Anthropology helps us understand our species across time and space from cultural and biological perspectives, and when investigating how infectious disease affects our species we must use the same perspectives. A bio-cultural approach on past and present infectious disease creates a more comprehensive and holistic scenarios when reconstructing the impact of pathogens on human populations. The course covers four paradigmatic infectious diseases: plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, and cholera
Units: 3.0