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Palaeopathology: Current challenges and medical impact

Clinical Anatomy, 2016
Palaeopathology is the science which studies ancient human diseases. Throughout its relatively young history it underwent tremendous technological and methodological improvements (from pure morphology and histology to CT scanning) that have constantly reshaped its scientific rationale.
Rühli, F., Galassi, F., Haeusler, M.
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Palaeopathology of osteoarthritis

2016
Palaeopathology is the study of disease in the past. Various different types of data can be used, including literature, paintings, and sculpture. In addition, for the rheumatic diseases, skeletal remains offer a particularly rich source of information for the palaeopathologist. This chapter only discusses the skeletal palaeopathology of osteoarthritis (
Juliet Rogers, Paul Dieppe
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Animal palaeopathology: Possibilities and problems

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1976
Abstract A brief account of the range of pathological disorders affecting the skeleton and certain other tissues of animals (mainly mammals) is given to indicate a broad picture of the sort of lesions which might be encountered in archaeological contexts. Though palaeopathological bone specimens have been described since the 18th century, it is only
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Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine

2022
This book aims to encourage more co-produced research by scholars working in evolutionary medicine (EM) and palaeopathology that addresses questions about human health, past and present. It highlights future research that may promote that collaboration between palaeopathology and EM. This chapter begins with the premise that EM and palaeopathology have
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Advances in Human Palaeopathology

2007
Preface (Simon Mays and Ron Pinhasi). Contributors. Part 1: Analytical Approaches in Palaeopathology. 1. The Chemical and Microbial Degradation of Bones and Teeth (Gordon Turner-Walker). 2. How Representative Are Human Skeletal Assemblages for Population Analysis? (Ron Pinhasi and Chryssi Bourbou). 3.
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The palaeopathology of scurvy in Europe

International Journal of Paleopathology, 2014
Documentary sources on scurvy in early Europe are largely post-Mediaeval and portray it as affecting sailors, soldiers, or victims of famine. But is this an accurate assessment? This article conducts a meta-analysis of palaeopathological evidence for scurvy in Europe and explores how these data augment documentary perspectives and extend our knowledge ...
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Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians

1995
While their health has suffered enormously because of the arrival of the Europeans, it is assumed that Aboriginal people enjoyed good health before 1788. Using data collected from all parts of the continent, this 1995 book studies the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50,000 years.
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Taphonomy and palaeopathology in archaeozoology

Geobios, 2008
Abstract Taphonomy studies post mortem damage to animal bones. Palaeopathology is the study of in vivo lesions in the skeleton. Archaeozoology uses animal remains from archaeological sites to study the relationship between people and animals. The connection between these concepts is that while all archaeozoological finds are subject to some kind of ...
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Human Palaeopathology: Proceedings of a Symposium on Human Palaeopathology, Washington, DC, January 14,1965.

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1966
In recent times the study of human palaeopathology in the United States has had little following with the result that it has produced no major publication in the last 30 years. It was in consequence of this situation and in the hope of fostering a recovery of wider interest that a symposium on human palaeopathology was organized and held in Washington,
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Palaeopathology

2021
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