AMS 357 • Medical Geography 12:00 PM-1:00 PM This course will
introduce students to the intricate and intimate relationships
between humans and infectious diseases. We will study how
diseases and epidemics have influenced human history and we will
also analyse how human modifications of the natural environment
and of production systems have changed disease patterns
globally. Focusing on zoonoses (diseases transmitted from non-
human animals to human animals such as Rabies and BSE [Mad Cow
Disease]), we will also examine emerging and emergent diseases
and the critical importance they play in the global arena today.
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Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and Peoples. New York: W.W.
Norton. Meade, Melinda and Robert Earickson (2000) Medical
Geography. New York: Guilford Press. Second Edition. Platt, Anne
E. (1996) Infecting Ourselves: How Environmental Social
Disruptions Trigger Disease. WorldWatch Paper 129. Washington,
D.C.: WorldWatch Institute. Other readin