The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis: A Comparative Study of Perceptions, Stigma, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Social Bioarchaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 252-281

  Roberts, Charlotte ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"conceptual" part of disease invisible to a paleopathologist, pathological changes to human remains; American Journal of Physical Anthropology or International Journal of Osteoarchaeology; Bioarchaeology of leprosy and tuberculosis study of perceptions, stigma, diagnosis and treatment; Common for leprosy patients complexes, neurotic symptoms and psychotic reactions; Criticisms that identity, being not a consideration for people working reconstruction of past patterns of health and disease, because of a "medical" orientation; Fowler, stating "Individuality is (was) extremely important to us"; Identity, people with leprosy and tuberculosis (TB) in past (and present); Leprosy and tuberculosis clinical overview of mycobacterial disease; Mycobacterial diseases of leprosy and tuberculosis coping with these in late medieval England; Study of "identity" in bioarchaeology of ill health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872403620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390537.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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