Introduction
Prerequisites
Course Syllabus
Course Schedule
Online Reading
Online Resources
Bulletin Board
My Grade
Thanks To
Evaluation
Mark W. Braun, MD
braunm@indiana.edu
Mechanisms of Human Disease
The Plight of Native Americans and European Conquest
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Week 7:
Native American health & unique susceptibilities
Health and nutrition status pre-1492.
New World diseases
Living conditions
Nutrition
Warfare
Demography and life expectancy
Modern observations
Diabetes
Alcoholism
Infections?
Online reading,
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The Columbian Exchange, Crosby, chapter 2 (pages 35-63)
A Pest in the Land, Alchon, Chapter 2 (pages 32-59)
Online; excerpted movie,
Black Robe
Lakota Winter Count Smithsonian website
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Week 8
Indiana University School of Medicine, copyright 2004
