Alan C. Swedlund

Alan C. Swedlund (born 1943) is a biological anthropologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Early in his career he was an assistant professor at Prescott College, Prescott, AZ. His research focuses primarily on the history of the human population, and on health and disease. He is the author of ''Shadows in the Valley: A cultural history of Illness, Death and Loss in New England, 1840-1916''. Provided by Wikipedia