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Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations / edited by Piers D. Mitchell.
Penn Museum Library RA567 .S27 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sanitation--History.
- Sanitation.
- Toilets--History.
- Toilets.
- History.
- Public health--History.
- Public health.
- Intestines--Diseases--History.
- Intestines.
- Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic--prevention & control.
- Sanitation--history.
- Toilet Facilities--history.
- Intestines--Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic--prevention & control.
- Sanitation--history.
- Toilet Facilities--history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- Contents:
- Why we need to know about sanitation in the past / Piers D Mitchell
- Assessing the impact of sanitation upon health in early human populations from hunter-gatherers to ancient civilizations, using theoretical modeling / Piers D Mitchell
- Waste management in early urban Southern Mesopotamia / Augusta McMahon
- Latrines and wastewater sanitation technologies in Ancient Greece / Georgios P. Antoniou and Andreas N. Angelakis
- A tale of two cities : the efficacy of ancient and medieval sanitation methods / Craig Taylor
- Sewers, cesspits and middens : a survey of the evidence for 2,000 years of waste disposal in York, UK / Allan R. Hall and Harry K. Kenward
- Human intestinal parasites and dysentery in Africa and the Middle East prior to 1500 / Evilena Anastasiou and Piers D Mitchell
- Parasitism, cesspits and sanitation in East Asian countries prior to modernization / Min Seo and Dong Hoon Shin
- New World paleoparasitology / Adauto Arajo, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Martin Fugassa, Daniela Leles, Luciana Sianto, Sheila Maria Mendonça de Souza, Juliana Dutra, Alena Iñiguez, Karl Reinhard
- Parasites in European populations from prehistory to the industrial revolution / Evilena Anastasiou
- A first attempt to retrace the history of dysentery caused by entamoeba histolytica / Matthieu Le Bailly and Françoise Bouchet
- A better understanding of sanitation and health in the past / Piers D Mitchell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472449078
- 147244907X
- OCLC:
- 884961896
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