Author: Albert S. Ashmead
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Pre-Columbian leprosy
Author: Albert S. Ashmead
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Paleomicrobiology
Author: Didier Raoult
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540758550
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This fascinating new volume comes complete with color illustrations and features the methodology and main achievements in the emerging field of paleomicrobiology. It’s an area research at the intersection of microbiology and evolution, history and anthropology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the cause of historical plague pandemics. An absorbing read for scientists in related fields.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540758550
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This fascinating new volume comes complete with color illustrations and features the methodology and main achievements in the emerging field of paleomicrobiology. It’s an area research at the intersection of microbiology and evolution, history and anthropology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the cause of historical plague pandemics. An absorbing read for scientists in related fields.
Twentieth Century Practice: Syphilis and leprosy
Author: Thomas Lathrop Stedman
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics and cultural geography of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Author: American Philosophical Society
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 42, 1903)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422373507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422373507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Handbook of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
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Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Leprosy
Author: Charlotte A. Roberts
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683402251
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease. Drawing on her 30 years of research on the infection, Charlotte Roberts begins by outlining its bacterial causes, how it spreads, and how it affects the body. She then considers its diagnosis and treatment, both historically and in the present. She also looks at the methods and tools used by paleopathologists to identify signs of leprosy in skeletons. Examining evidence in human remains from many countries, particularly in Europe and including Britain, Hungary, and Sweden, Roberts demonstrates that those affected were usually buried in the same cemeteries as others in their communities, contrary to the popular belief that they were all ostracized or isolated from society into leprosy hospitals. Other myths addressed by Roberts include the assumptions that leprosy can’t be cured, that leprosy is no longer a problem today, and that what is called “leprosy” in the Bible is the same illness as the disease with that name now. Roberts concludes by projecting the future of leprosy, arguing that researchers need to study the disease through an ethically grounded evolutionary perspective. Importantly, she advises against use of the word “leper” to avoid perpetuating stigma today surrounding people with the infection and resulting disabilities. Leprosy will stand as the authoritative source on the subject for years to come. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683402251
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease. Drawing on her 30 years of research on the infection, Charlotte Roberts begins by outlining its bacterial causes, how it spreads, and how it affects the body. She then considers its diagnosis and treatment, both historically and in the present. She also looks at the methods and tools used by paleopathologists to identify signs of leprosy in skeletons. Examining evidence in human remains from many countries, particularly in Europe and including Britain, Hungary, and Sweden, Roberts demonstrates that those affected were usually buried in the same cemeteries as others in their communities, contrary to the popular belief that they were all ostracized or isolated from society into leprosy hospitals. Other myths addressed by Roberts include the assumptions that leprosy can’t be cured, that leprosy is no longer a problem today, and that what is called “leprosy” in the Bible is the same illness as the disease with that name now. Roberts concludes by projecting the future of leprosy, arguing that researchers need to study the disease through an ethically grounded evolutionary perspective. Importantly, she advises against use of the word “leper” to avoid perpetuating stigma today surrounding people with the infection and resulting disabilities. Leprosy will stand as the authoritative source on the subject for years to come. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen