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The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis - A Global View on a Reemerging Disease (Paperback)
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The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis - A Global View on a Reemerging Disease (Paperback)
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Tuberculosis has plagued humans and animals for thousands of years.
Though apparently in decline with the advent of effective
chemotherapy and improved living conditions, sanitation, and diet
during the first half of the 20th century, TB has reawakened in
both developed and developing countries, particularly among
susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders. These
authors offer a detailed study of the history of this persistent
and important infectious disease, covering its etiology,
epidemiology, and pathogenesis. Beginning with a discussion of the
epidemiology, clinical signs and symptoms of tuberculosis, and
skeletal changes associated with it, Roberts and Buikstra examine
evidence for the disease through time in both human and nonhuman
populations. They devote particular attention to the
paleopathological evidence of tuberculosis throughout human history
found in both Old and New World archaeological sites. With a review
of the hard evidence of tuberculosis from the archaeological record
(skeletons showing evidence of the disease), they focus on how and
why the disease developed in antiquity, its evolutionary routes,
and how past populations treated it. The authors augment clinical
data with evidence from a variety of sources including art and
documentary materials. A concluding chapter addresses the current
reemergent status of the disease and its future prospects. The
authors reveal that tuberculosis has repeatedly increased over time
as societies have become more complex socially, economically, and
politically. Their detailed presentation of the clinical data on
tuberculosis and its many causative factors brings together
information from a wealth of sources worldwide and mounts an
argument rich in paleoepidemiological and historical data that
challenges accepted dogma about the conquest of TB by modern
technology. Their account will be of interest to anthropologists,
archaeologists, biologists, and sociologists as well as clinicians
and medical historians.
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