History of Anatomy and Physiology

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History of Anatomy and Physiology

• How Time and Technology Played a Role

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Primitive Man

• Nomadic
• Followed food
• Hunter-gatherers
• Concerned with survival! To eat and not be eaten!

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Agricultural Revolution

• Realized had some
  control over life
• Start to manipulate
  environment
• Less nomadic
• Plant food
• More civilized
• More time more thought more technology

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Industrial Revolution

• Machines did work, urbanization
• More sedentary
• Altered diets
• More meat
• Transported food
• Emergence of new diseases
• Diabetes, heart disease,
  high cholesterol, obesity
• More time more thought even more technology!

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Biomedical Revolution

• Germ Theory of Disease
• Microbes cause disease!
• Better medicine - antibiotics
• Better sanitation
• Sterile surgery
• Medical technology

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Information Age

• Smaller world
• More information into more
  hands quicker
• Surge of technology
• Obesity much more prevalent
• Longer life spans
• Huge increase in time huge increase in thought
  huge increase in technology

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What is AP?

• Anatomy

• Physiology

• a cutting up
• Study of body structures
• Form and organization
• Examination

• relationship to nature
• Study of body function
• What they do, how they do it
• Experimentation

Structure makes function possible! How a part is
constructed determines how it works!