Sick: 10,000 Years of Health and Disease

Harvard FAS

This course surveys the concept of health and the major nutritional and infectious diseases that have impacted human populations over the past ten thousand years. Special attention is paid to the methods used to detect and identify disease in the past, including skeletal paleopathology, paleodemography, and pathogenomics, as well as human social factors that have influenced human disease exposure and susceptibility, including long-distance migration, agriculture and pastoralism, urbanization,…