Advances in Human Palaeopathology

Advances in Human Palaeopathology presents the first truly integrated methodological and biocultural approach to the expanding discipline of human palaeopathology. The book provides researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the main methods and techniques that are currently available for studying diseases and related conditions from human skeletal remains. It also describes the ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health and disease in the past.
The first part of the book deals with the survival of palaeopathological evidence and provides an up–to–date account of some of the latest techniques for studying disease in ancient remains. These include imaging techniques, such as radiography and CT scanning, and biochemical and histological analyses. Part two discusses the diagnosis and interpretation of particular classes of disease. The emphasis here is on what can be learnt by taking a biocultural or holistic approach to the study of disease frequencies at a population level.
Combines theoretical, methodological and diagnostic aspects with key biocultural approaches.
Includes overviews of the latest applicable techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry, histopathology and medical imaging.
Written by an international team of experts.
Advances in Human Palaeopathology will prove invaluable for biological anthropologists and archaeologists who study health and disease in past populations. It will also be of interest to medical researchers dealing with epidemiological, diagnostic and pathophysiological aspects of diseases, who need a perspective upon the ways in which particular diseases affected earlier generations.

Spis treści:
Preface
Simon Mays and Ron Pinhasi
PART I: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES IN PALAEOPATHOLOGY
1. The chemical and microbial degradation of bones and teeth
Gordon Turner& #8211;Walker
2. How representative are human skeletal assemblages for population analysis?
Ron Pinhasi and Chryssi Bourbou
3.Epidemiological approaches in palaeopathology
Ron Pinhasi and Katy Turner
4. Macroscopic analysis and data collection in palaeopathology
Anne L. Grauer
5. Radiography and allied techniques in the palaeopathology of skeletal remains
Simon Mays
6. CT–scanning and 3D–visualisation of mummies and bog bodies
Niels Lynnerup
7. Histological studies on ancient bone
Gordon Turner–Walker and Simon Mays
8. Molecular palaeopathology of human infectious disease
Helen D. Donoghue
9. Databases
William White
PART II: DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DISEASE IN HUMAN REMAINS
10. Differential diagnosis of skeletal lesions in infectious disease
Donald J. Ortner
11. Metabolic bone disease
Simon Mays
12. Tumours and tumour–like processes
Don Brothwell
13. Advances in the palaeopathology of teeth and jaws
Alan Ogden
14. Trauma
Pia Bennike
15. Congenital Anomalies
Ethne Barnes
16. Growth in past archaeological populations
Ron Pinhasi
INDEX


Nota biograficzna:
Ron Pinhasi received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 2003. He spent two years in a Lise Meitner postdoctoral position at the Natural History museum, Vienna, examining the health status of early medieval Austrian populations. He is currently a lecturer in Archaeology, University College Cork, Ireland. His research focuses on growth and development in past populations, the origin and spread of leprosy in Eurasia, and the origins and spread of farming in the Near East. he carries out fieldwork in Israel and directs prehistoric excavations in Armenia. Key publications inc lude ′Morbidity, rickets, and long bone growth in post–medieval Britain – a cross–population analysis′ (with Shaw, White and Ogden), Annals of Human biology, 2006; ′A cross–population analysis of the growth of long bones and the os coxae of three early medieval Austrian populations′ (with Teschler–Nicola, Knaus and Shaw), American Journal of Human biology, 2005; ′Tracing the origin and spread of agriculture in Europe′ (with Fort and Ammerman), PLoS Biology, 2005; and ′A regional biological approach to the spread of farming in Europe: Anatolia, the Levant, south–eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean′ (with Pluciennik), Current Anthropology, 2004. He is a member of the European Archaeological Association, and the Paleopathology Association.
Simon Mays received his PhD from the University of Southampton, England, in 1987. He is currently Human Skeletal Biologist for English Heritage and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Southampton. His research encompasses most areas of human osteoarchaeology. Key publications include: the Archaeology of Human Bones (Routledge, 1998); Human Osteology in Archaeology and Forensic Science (Greenwich Medical Media, 2000, co–edited with M.Cox); ′Palaeopathological and bimolecular study of tuberculosis in a mediaeval skeletal collection from England (with Taylor, Legge, Shaw & Turner–Walker), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2001; Skeletal manifestations of rickets in infants and young children in an historic population from England′ (with Brickley and Ives), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2006. He is a member of the managing committee of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), of the Human Remains Advisory Panel of the UK Governmental Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and is Secretary of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Christia n Burials in England.

Okładka tylna:
Advances in Human Palaeopathology presents the first truly integrated methodological and biocultural approach to the expanding discipline of human palaeopathology. The book provides researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the main methods and techniques that are currently available for studying diseases and related conditions from human skeletal remains. It also describes the ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health and disease in the past.
The first part of the book deals with the survival of palaeopathological evidence and provides an up–to–date account of some of the latest techniques for studying disease in ancient remains. These include imaging techniques, such as radiography and CT scanning, and biochemical and histological analyses. Part two discusses the diagnosis and interpretation of particular classes of disease. The emphasis here is on what can be learnt by taking a biocultural or holistic approach to the study of disease frequencies at a population level.
Combines theoretical, methodological and diagnostic aspects with key biocultural approaches.
Includes overviews of the latest applicable techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry, histopathology and medical imaging.
Written by an international team of experts.
Advances in Human Palaeopathology will prove invaluable for biological anthropologists and archaeologists who study health and disease in past populations. It will also be of interest to medical researchers dealing with epidemiological, diagnostic and pathophysiological aspects of diseases, who need a perspective upon the ways in which particular diseases affected earlier generations.