Tony Waldron

Palaeopathology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on modern clinical knowledge Palaeopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 759g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861373
• ISBN-10: 0521861373
• Artikelnr.: 25428051

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

Part I. Introduction and Concepts: 1. Beginnings
2. Basic assumptions
3. Health and disease
4. Diagnosis
Part II. Pathology: 5. Osteoarthritis
6. Other joint diseases
7. Spinal pathology
8. Infectious diseases
9. Metabolic diseases
10. Trauma
11. Neoplastic diseases
12. Disorders of growth and development
13. Special pathology
14. Dental disease
Part III. Analysis: 15. Introduction to epidemiology
16. Interpretation.