| Description |
1 online resource (693 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: Applications, Methods, and Techniques in Paleopathology -- 2 The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology -- 3 Differential Diagnosis and Rigor in Paleopathology -- 4 Epidemiology and Mathematical Modeling -- 5 Paleohistopathology: History, Technical Aspects, and Diagnostic Challenges -- 6 Paleoradiology -- 7 Isotopes in Paleopathology -- 8 Genetics and Genomics |
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9 Parasitology and Paleopathology -- 10 Historical Sources, Historiography, and Paleopathology -- 11 Osteobiography and Case Studies -- 12 Mummified Remains -- PART II: Investigating Diseases and Conditions of the Past -- 13 "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones": Traumatic Injuries in Paleopathology -- 14 Developmental Conditions in Paleopathology -- 15 Tumors and Neoplastic Diseases: Assessing Antiquity and Pondering Prevalence -- 16 Treponemal Infection -- 17 Here and Now, There and Then: Two Mycobacterial Diseases Still with Us Today -- 18 Paleopathology of Infectious Diseases |
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19 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases -- 20 Dental Disease -- PART III: Theoretical Approaches and New Directions -- 21 Ethical Considerations for Paleopathology -- 22 Synthesizing Stress in Paleopathological Perspective: Theory, Method, Application -- 23 Theoretical Approaches to the Paleopathology of Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Structural Violence as a Holistic Interpretive Tool in Paleopathology -- 24 Issues of Gender, Identity, and Agency in Paleopathology -- 25 Disability and Care in the Bioarchaeological Record: Meeting the Challenges of Being Human |
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26 Defining the Margins, Embodying the Consequences -- 27 Interpreting Trauma and Social Violence from Skeletal Remains -- 28 The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Implications for Paleopathology -- 29 Disease in the Fossil Record -- 30 Zooarchaeology and the Paleopathological Record -- 31 Plagues and Pandemics -- 32 Public Perceptions of Paleopathology and the Future of Outreach -- 33 Big Pictures in 21st-Century Paleopathology: Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000820447 |
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1000820440 |
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