Research Catalog

Title

Identification and interpretation of joint disease in paleopathology and forensic anthropology / by Nicole M. Burt, PH.D., Dyan Semple, M.A., Kathryn Waterhouse, PH.D., Nancy C. Lovell, PH.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Author

Burt, Nicole M.

Publication

Springfield , Illinois, U.S.A. : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Lovell, Nancy C.
• Semple, Dyan
• Waterhouse, Kathryn (Anthropologist)

Description

xii, 96 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

The goals of this guide to the identification and interpretation of joint disease are: (1) to identify the diagnostic criteria that are relevant to investigations of joint disease in dry and macerated bone specimens; (2) to differentiate between various disease forms; and (3) to highlight contentious issues, such as the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis and the implications of the prevalence and severity of joint disease for reconstructing the behaviors of past peoples. The text advocates the use of unambiguous terminology and hence discusses descriptive terms and illustrates how the use of co.

Subject

• Forensic Anthropology > methods
• Forensic anthropology
• Forensic osteology
• Joint Diseases
• Musculoskeletal system > Diseases
• Paleopathology
• Paleopathology > methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Chapter I OSTEOARTHRITIS; Chapter II MULTIFOCAL EROSIVE ARTHROPATHIES; Chapter III LESS COMMON FORMS OF SYNOVIAL JOINT DISEASE; Chapter IV DISEASES OF THE NON-SYNOVIAL JOINTS OF THE SPINE; APPENDICES; INDEX.

ISBN

• 9780398087586 (spiral)
• 039808758X (spiral)
• 9780398087593 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013018720

OCLC

844789851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library