Heart attacks breast cancer obesity anxiety compulsive disorders eating issues and self-injury can be found across the animal kingdom. Human exceptionalism has been so entrenched in modern medicine that it has obscured many crucial health connections across species. This course presents species-spanning medicine as a new perspective for understanding the nature of disease; how evolutionary processes have shaped human vulnerability to illness; and how anthropocentric traditions have contributed to stigma associated with mental illness cancer obesity and other disorders. Taught by a physician this course uses a mini-medical school approach to introduce relevant medical information and formal methods of systematic review meta-analysis and phylogenetic modeling as an evolutionary framework. No prior medical or advanced scientific knowledge is assumed. Both physical and mental illnesses are covered.
