Course Listing: MECHANISMS OF HUMAN DISEASE

Fall 2008, Bloomington




Information on this report reflects data as of the end of the day Sunday, January 25, 2009


	MSCI-M 570  MECHANISMS OF HUMAN DISEASE (3 CR)
              13379          02:30P-03:45P   TR     JH 001    Braun M                       10    4    0
                 TOPIC : THIS COURSE WILL EXAMINE THE EPIDEMIOLOGY, MECHANISMS
                 OR INJURY AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SELECTED INFECTIOUS DISEASES
                 INTRODUCED BY EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS INTO NEW WORLD NATIVE
                 POPULATIONS. WE WILL CONSIDER THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF NEW
                 WORLD NATIVE AMERICANS AT THE TIME OF EUROPEAN CONTACT AND
                 INVESTIGATE THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF SELECTED
                 INFECTIOUS DISEASES SUCH AS MEASLES, SMALLPOX, INFLUENZA,
                 TUBERCULOSIS AND SYPHILIS. WE WILL INVESTIGATE SELECTED NEW
                 WORLD EPIDEMICS USING HISTORIC DOCUMENTS, ARCHEOLOGICAL AND
                 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOURCES.
                 ABOVE CLASS OPEN TO GRADUATES ONLY