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Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations

Title
Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations / edited by Piers D. Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

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Mitchell, Piers D.
Description
xii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Sanitation > History
  • Toilets > History
  • Public health > History
  • Intestines > History
  • Intestines > Diseases
  • Public health
  • Sanitation
  • Toilets
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic > prevention & control
  • Sanitation > history
  • Toilet Facilities > history
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-276) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781472449078 (hbk)
  • 147244907X (hbk)
  • 9781472449085 (ebk-PDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472449092 (ebk-ePUB) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014029258
  • 99964587040
  • 40024730217
OCLC
  • ocn884961896
  • 884961896
  • SCSB-5822910
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries