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The Archaeology of Medicine and Healthcare (Hardcover)
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The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is
achieved - through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving -
are fundamentals of human societies. However, archaeological
investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the
obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as
discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather
than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health
beliefs. This volume highlights the importance of medical
worldviews as a means of understanding healthcare and medical
practice in the past. The volume brings together ten chapters, with
themes ranging from a bioarchaeology of Neanderthal healthcare, to
Roman air quality, decontamination strategies at Australian
quarantine centres, to local resistance to colonial medical
structures in South America. Within their chapters the contributors
argue for greater integration between archaeology and both the
medical and environmental humanities, while the Introduction
presents suggestions for future engagement with emerging discourse
in community and public health, environmental and planetary health,
genetic and epigenetic medicine, 'exposome' studies and ecological
public health, microbiome studies and historical disability
studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of World Archaeology.
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