Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine
An Integrated Approach
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 April 2022
- ISBN 9780198849711
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 253x194x24 mm
- Weight 968 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 colour line figures and illustrations 408
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Short description:
First book to highlight the benefits of using palaeopathological research to answer questions about the evolution of disease and its application to current health problems, as well as the benefits of using evolutionary thinking in medicine to help interpret historical disease processes.
MoreLong description:
Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology. To date, however, palaeopathology has not been necessarily recognised as particularly useful to the field and most key texts in evolutionary medicine have tended to overlook it.
This novel text is the first to highlight the benefits of using palaeopathological research to answer questions about the evolution of disease and its application to current health problems, as well as the benefits of using evolutionary thinking in medicine to help interpret historical disease processes. It presents hypothesis-driven research by experts in biological anthropology (including palaeopathology), medicine, health sciences, and evolutionary medicine through a series of unique case studies that address specific research questions. Each chapter has been co-authored by two or more researchers with different disciplinary perspectives in order to provide original, insightful, and interdisciplinary contributions that will provide new insights for both palaeopathology and evolutionary medicine.
Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine is intended for graduate level students and professional researchers in a wide range of fields including the humanities (history), social sciences (anthropology, archaeology, palaeopathology, geography), and life sciences (medicine and biology). Relevant courses include evolutionary medicine, evolutionary anthropology, medical anthropology, and palaeopathology.
An impressive volume focusing on the integration of paleopathology?the study of disease, health and the challenges to health in the past?and evolutionary medicine?the study of health in an evolutionary context. The book successfully integrates the two fields, giving both new strengths and revised aspirations in addressing common goals. It offers new opportunities for the development of a more informed understanding of health and well-being, including, but not limited to, aging, reproductive health, immune function, inflammation, microbiomes, and diet and nutrition.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
What's it all about? A legacy for the next generation of scholars in evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology
Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD): perspectives from bioarchaeology
Acquired spinal conditions in humans: the roles of spinal curvature, the shape of the lumbar vertebrae, and evolutionary history
Birthing humans in the past, the present and future: how birth can be approached holistically through an evolutionary medicine lens
Isotopic reconstruction of ancient human diet and health: implications for evolutionary medicine
Developmental, evolutionary, and behavioural perspectives on oral health
Palaeoecology: considering proximate and ultimate influences in human diets and environmental responses in the early Holocene Dnieper River region of Ukraine
Human resistance and the evolution of plague in Medieval Europe
Leprosy Is down but not yet out: new insights shed light on its origin and evolution
Preventable and curable, but still a global problem: tuberculosis from an evolutionary perspective
Evolutionary perspectives on human parasitic infection: ancient parasites to modern medicine.
Cardiovascular disease in ancient people and contemporary implications
Connecting palaeopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present
Stress in bioarchaeology, epidemiology, and evolutionary medicine: an integrated conceptual model of shared history from the descriptive to the developmental
Metabolic diseases in bioarchaeology: an evolutionary medicine approach
The palaeopathology of traumatic injuries: an evolutionary medicine perspective
Uncovering tales of transmission: an integrated palaeopathological perspective on the evolution of shared human and animal pathogens
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Afterword
