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Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation. [electronic resource] : Bone Diseases in Ancient Human Populations
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinbock, Ted R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bone diseases--History.
- Bones--Diseases--Diagnosis.
- Paleopathology.
- Paleopathology--Diseases--Diagnosis.
- Bones.
- Paleontology.
- Musculoskeletal Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Anthropology, Physical.
- Disease.
- Anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- History.
- Bone Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Paleontology.
- Musculoskeletal Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Anthropology, Physical.
- Disease.
- Anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- History.
- Bone Diseases.
- Paleopathology.
- Local Subjects:
- Bone diseases--History.
- Bones--Diseases--Diagnosis.
- Paleopathology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Charles C Thomas, 1976.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a systematic approach to diagnosing bone lesions in excavated skeletal series and interpreting the significance of such diseases in ancient human populations. Chapters discuss the biology and gross anatomy of normal bone to aid in understanding the bone changes produced by pathological conditions, and cover the major traumatic, infectious, nutritional, metabolic degenerative, and neoplastic diseases of bone. A special section is devoted to establishing nutritional deficiency as the cause of peculiar lesions found in large numbers of excavated crania. The chapter on bone tumo
- Contents:
- HALF TITLE: PALEOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPRETATION; TITLE PAGE: Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation; TO MY PARENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; PALEOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPRETATION; Chapter I: BONE AS A LIVING TISSUE; Chapter II: TRAUMA; Chapter III: NONSPECIFIC INFECTION: PYOGENIC OSTEOMYELITIS; Chapter IV: TREPONEMA INFECTION: SYPHILIS, BEJEL, AND YAWS; Chapter V: TUBERCULOSIS; Chapter VI: LEPROSY; Chapter VII: HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS- THE ANEMIAS; Chapter VIII: METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; Chapter IX: ARTHRITIS
- Chapter X: TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE PROCESSES OF BONEAUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08984-1
- OCLC:
- 855969890
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