The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology

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
	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
	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
	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