| Description |
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Australian palaeopathology, survey methods, samples and ethnohistoric sources -- 3. Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul: some possibilities -- 4. Pathology in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Australian hominids -- 5. Stress -- 6. Infectious disease -- 7. Osteoarthritis -- 8. Trauma -- 9. Neoplastic disease -- 10. Congenital malformations -- 11. Motupore: the palaeopathology of a prehistoric New Guinea island community -- 12. The old and the new: Australia's changing patterns of health |
| Summary |
Survey of health and disease in precontact Aboriginal populations; sources of pathology in Pleistocene and Holocene Australia - palaeopathology; examination of skeletal remains - Murray Black, Broadbeach, Roonka, Willandra Lakes, Kow Swamp, Coobool Crossing, Keilor and other collections; indicators of stress - cribra orbitalia (anemia), dental hypoplasia, Harris lines; infectious disease - non-specific and osteomyelitis, origins, distribution and forms of treponemal disease (Erkincha, yaws, syphilis); osteoarthritis - forms and distribution - effects on cranial morphology; injury - post-cranial fractures, cranial trauma - frequency and distribution (violence); surgery - trephination, amputation; neoplasms - multiple myeloma, metastatic and naseopharyngeal carcinoma, osteomas; congenital conditions - spina bifida, meningocoele, cleft palate, scaphocephaly/craniosynostosis; regional summary of Holocene health patterns - the arid zone, Murray River and Rufus River, east and southeast coast, the tropics |
| Analysis |
Australian aborigines Health History |
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Aborigines |
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Diseases |
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History |
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Palaeontology |
| Notes |
Digitally printed pbk. version published 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-320) and index |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
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English |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Diseases -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Diseases.
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Health.
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Hygiene.
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Paleopathology -- Health and hygiene -- Australia.
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Paleopathology -- Australia.
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Paleopathology.
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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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Paleopathology.
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Anthropology, Physical.
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Anthropology.
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Continental Population Groups.
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Disease.
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Health.
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Hygiene.
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Named Groups
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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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Paleontology.
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Paleopathology.
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Persons.
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Population Groups.
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Social Sciences.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| LC no. |
94015247 |
| ISBN |
0521460441 (hardback) |
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