Companion to Paleopathology

Herausgegeben von Grauer, Anne L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensiveoverview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physicalanthropology.
Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology,integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understandbiological and disease processes throughout human history
Demonstrates how paleopathology sheds light on the past throughthe analysis of human and non-human skeletal materials, mummifiedremains and preserved tissue
Integrates scientific advances in multiple fields thatcontribute to the understanding of ancient and historic diseases,such as epidemiology, histology, radiology, parasitology,dentistry, and molecular biology, as well as archaeological,archival and historical research.
Highlights cultural processes that have an impact on theevolution of illness, death and dying in human populations,including subsistence strategies, human environmental adaptations,the effects of malnutrition, differential access to resources, andinterpersonal and intercultural violence

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Vol.1
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1259g
• ISBN-13: 9781444334258
• ISBN-10: 1444334255
• Artikelnr.: 33933300

Autorenporträt

Anne L. Grauer is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the editor of Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis (1995) and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective (with Stuart-Macadam, 1998). She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the executive board of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and is a past President of the Paleopathology Association.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi List of Tables xvii Notes on Contributors xix
Acknowledgements xxviii 1 Introduction: The Scope of Paleopathology 1 Anne
L. Grauer Part I Approaches, Perspectives and Issues 15 2 Ethics and Issues
in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology 17 Patricia M.
Lambert 3 Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the
Biocultural Approach 34 Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner, and George
J. Armelagos 4 The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology 58 Michele
R. Buzon 5 The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology 76 James H.
Gosman 6 The Ecological Approach: Understanding Past Diet and the
Relationship Between Diet and Disease 97 M. Anne Katzenberg 7 An
Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology 114 Jesper L. Boldsen and George
R. Milner 8 The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA Analysis in
Paleopathology Studies 133 Mark Spigelman, Dong Hoon Shin, and Gila Kahila
Bar Gal 9 The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummifi ed Remains 152 Michael
R. Zimmerman 10 The Study of Parasites Through Time: Archaeoparasitology
and Paleoparasitology 170 Katharina Dittmar, Adauto Araújo, and Karl J.
Reinhard 11 More Than Just Mad Cows: Exploring Human-Animal Relationships
Through Animal Paleopathology 191 Beth Upex and Keith Dobney 12 How Does
The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future? 214 Mary Lucas Powell and
Della Collins Cook Part II Methods and Techniques of Inquiry 225 13 A
Knowledge of Bone at the Cellular (Histological) Level is Essential to
Paleopathology 227 Bruce D. Ragsdale and Larisa M. Lehmer 14 Differential
Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classifi cation 250 Donald J. Ortner 15
Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton, a Paleopathological Perspective
268 George R. Milner and Jesper L. Boldsen 16 The Relationship Between
Paleopathology and the Clinical Sciences 285 Simon Mays 17 Integrating
Historical Sources with Paleopathology 310 Piers D. Mitchell 18
Fundamentals of Paleoimaging Techniques: Bridging the Gap Between
Physicists and Paleopathologists 324 Johann Wanek, Christina
Papageorgopoulou, and Frank Rühli 19 Data and Data Analysis Issues in
Paleopathology 339 Ann L.W. Stodder Part III Diseases of the Past: Current
Understandings and Controversies 357 20 Trauma 359 Margaret A. Judd and
Rebecca Redfern 21 Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton 380 Ethne Barnes
22 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases 401 Tomasz KozBowski and Henryk W.
Witas 23 Tumors: Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology 420
Don Brothwell 24 Re-Emerging Infections: Developments in Bioarchaeological
Contributions to Understanding Tuberculosis Today 434 Charlotte Roberts 25
Leprosy (Hansen's disease) 458 Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen 26
Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future 472 Della Collins Cook and Mary
Lucas Powell 27 Nonspecifi c Infection in Paleopathology: Interpreting
Periosteal Reactions 492 Darlene A. Weston 28 Joint Disease 513 Tony
Waldron 29 Bioarchaeology's Holy Grail: The Reconstruction of Activity 531
Robert Jurmain, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Henderson, and Sébastien
Villotte 30 Oral Health in Past Populations: Context, Concepts and
Controversies 553 John R. Lukacs Index 582