people

Question 1

Sir Marc Armand Ruffer

Answer 1

father of paleopathology.

Early on, paleopathology focused on animals.

> analysed Egyptian mummies
noticed fractures, bone tumors on fossil remains
focus changed from animal fossils to human remains

Question 2

Rudolf Virchow

Answer 2

“Rickets” cause malformation of minerals

founder of cellular pathology

begins syphilis debate

Question 3

Kary Mullis

Answer 3

invented “molecular photocopying”

risks of contamination: environment handlers; routine amplification of target dan

Prevention: wearing gloves; cleaning & scraping surfaces; specific primers; use negative controls; cleaning of lab surfaces; identifying sequences

Question 4

Ales Hrdlicka

Answer 4

father of american physical anthropology

amassed large collections of skeletons with pathological conditions

focused on population variation

Question 5

Earnest Hooton

Answer 5

> he examined the presence of disease in a wider context

> his unit of analysis moved from the individual to the population