Introduction
  Prerequisites
  Course Syllabus
  Course Schedule
  Online Reading
  Online Resources
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 Mark W. Braun, MD
 braunm@indiana.edu

 
   Mechanisms of Human Disease 
    The Plight of Native Americans and European Conquest
 

 
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Week 15:    Disease, Colonialism and the Modern World
  • Unintended consequences
  • Active support and spread
  • Religious 'conversion'
  • Slavery and economic domination
  • Nutritional deficiencies
  • Psychological
  • Cultural extinction
  • Stresses leading to
    • Decreased fertility
    • Added to increased death rate
Online reading, click here
  • A Pest in the Land, Alchon, chapter 4 & 5 (pages 83-145)
  • A Pest in the Land, Alchon, appendix and epilog (pages 147-177)
  • Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess, pages 272-293 (online).
  • Typhoid Mary Mallon

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