Reading reports and participation | 20 % |
Quizzes | 20 % |
Midterm (3/17) | 30 % covers lectures 1-13 |
Final (TBA) | 30 % covers lectures 14-28 |
Lecture | Date | Topic | Reading |
1 | 2/1 | Class introduction, classification of diseases. | |
2 | 2/3 | Basic terminology see hand-out |
Roberts & Manchaester 1995: Ch 1 Reading report 1 |
3 | 2/8 | Biology of skeletal tissue | Robling & Stout 2000 Reading Report 2 |
4 | 2/10 | Quiz 1(basic terms, human skeleton) Types of skeletal lesions and their interpretation |
Lovell 2000 Reading Report 3 |
5 | 2/15 | Infectious diseases and immune system, co-evolution | Larsen ch. 3 Diamond 1999: Ch 11. Reading Report 4 |
6 | 2/17 | Tuberculosis and leprosy | Ortner 2003, Chapter 10 Mostowy & Behr: 2005 Reading Report 5 |
7 | 2/22 | Tuberculosis in the New World | Gómez i Prat & Mendonça de Souza
2003 Reading Report 6 |
8 | 2/24 | Treponematosis, origin of venereal syphilis | Baker & Armelagos 1988 |
9 | 3/01 | Quiz 2 (infections and immune system) Syphilis through the ages, other bacterial infections | Quetel 1-49 Reading Report 7 |
10 | 3/03 |
Archaeoparasitology Schistosome life cycle | Carvalho Goncalves et al. 2002 Martinson et al. 2003 |
11 | 3/08 | Eukaryotic Parasites: Malaria, Hookworms | Capasso 1998 Hawdon and Johnston 1996 Reading Report 8 |
12 | 3/10 | Viral Infections: Smallpox, Rubella | Li et al. 2007 |
13 | 3/15 | Viral Infections: HIV, review Life Cycle of HIV | Hutchinson 2001 Reading Report 9 |
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14 | 3/22 | Congenital diseases, review | Roberts and Manchester, Ch 3 |
15 | 3/24 | Physiological stress: anemia, scurvy, rickets | Larsen chapter 2 Reading Report 10 |
16 | 3/29 | Physiological stress: osteological paradox | Blom et la. 2005 Write and Chew 1999 Reading Report 11 |
17 | 3/31 | Degenerative Desieases |
Roberts & Manchester. 1995. Ch 6. Rogers and Waldron 2001 Reading Report 12 |
18 | 4/05 | Parturition, birth complications | Arriaza et al 1988 Sewell 1993 Ortner 119-163 |
19 | 4/07 | Ancient medical practices Queez 3: (physeological stress, degenerative diseases) | Ortner 163-174 |
4/12-4/26 | No classes!!! AAPA meetings anf Spring Recess |
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20 | 4/28 | Neoplastic Diseases | Roberts and Manchester, Ch 9Reading Report 17 |
21 | 5/03 | Disease during the Paleolithic | Formicola and Buzhilova 2004 Formicola et al. 2001 Reading Report 17 |
22 | 5/05 | Health index | Steckel et al. 2001 Reading Report 18 |
23 | 5/10 | Quiz 4 (diseases of early humans) Vaccination and antibiotics, diseases in the 17th - 19th centuries New diseases, transatlantic exchanges | Hays 1998, pp 106-134 Reading Report 19 |
24 | 5/12 | Epidemiology of the last 50 years | Barrett et al. 1998 Reading Report 20 |
25 | 5/17 | Review||
FINAL: TBA |