Tony Waldron

Palaeopathology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Palaeopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages. Based on modern clinical knowledge Waldron provides background information to help readers understand the natural history of bone diseases, and draw reliable conclusions from their observations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521678551
• ISBN-10: 0521678552
• Artikelnr.: 25257921

Autorenporträt

Professor Tony Waldron teaches palaeopathology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The author of about 300 peer-reviewed papers in medical, scientific, and archaeology journals, as well as books on occupational medicine and palaeoepidemiology, he is co-founder of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and served as co-editor for its first decade. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Institute of Biology, and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, and diagnosis
2. Bone metabolism and pathology
3. Diseases of joints: osteoarthritis
4. Other joint diseases
5. Bone forming and DISH
6. Infectious diseases
7. Metabolic diseases
8. Trauma
9. Tumours
10. Disorders of growth and development
11. Soft tissue diseases
12. Dental disease
13. An introduction to epidemiology.