Assignment
2-3 pages, double spaced. 1" margins, 11 or 12 pt font. You should also include a works cited section/bibliography, which does not count towards your page requirement.
"A" papers will synthesize course readings, lecture content, films (where relevant), class discussion and your own interpretations into a cohesive and well-argued paper.
Prompt (Complete all parts):
• Define Darwinian medicine, and explain how this approach frames health and wellness relative to more mainstream US-style biomedicine.
• Explain the discordance hypothesis and describe the primary ways our information age society differs from the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).
• Choose a disease or condition, and using it as an example, describe the ways an evolutionary perspective may add to our understanding of that disease or condition's causation, as well as to possible prevention/treatment approaches.
• What barriers might medical anthropologists face in attempting to integrate Darwinian medicine into existing US medical care systems?