The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology

Anne L. Grauer, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

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.