Health and disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12th centuries AD) / Chryssi Bourbou

Author: Bourbou, Chryssi
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010]
Copyright Date: ©2010
Physical Description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Series

Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Jigsaw Puzzle of Health in Context -- Historical Outline -- Christianity: The New Religion -- Settlement Patterns and Byzantine Houses -- Economy and Society -- Byzantine Medicine -- Materials and Methods -- Anthropological Analysis -- Paleopathological Analysis -- 2.In Search of Homo Byzantinus -- Physical Anthropology -- Paleopathology -- Diseases of the Dentition -- Degenerative Joint Diseases of the Appendicular Skeleton -- Degenerative Joint Diseases of the Spine -- Intervertebral Disc Displacement -- Hematopoietic Disorders -- Infectious Diseases -- Trauma -- Circulatory Disorders -- Congenital Abnormalities -- Tumors of Bone -- 3.Tiny Occupants in Shallow Graves: The Bioarchacology of Non-Adult Individuals -- Children in Byzantine Society -- Making It To Adulthood? Reconstructing Non-Adult Mortality Patterns -- Non-Adult Health and Disease Patterns -- Hematopoietic and Metabolic Disorders -- Non-Specific Infections -- 4.The Byzantine World on a Plate -- Evidence from Documentary Sources -- Are We What We Eat? -- Isotopic analysis in Greece -- Isotopic Analysis of Byzantine Populations.

Subject(s)

Human remains (Archaeology)—Greece—Crete
Paleopathology—Greece—Crete
Nutrition—Greece—Crete—History
Diseases—Greece—Crete—History
Cretans—Health and hygiene—History
Human ecology—Greece—Crete
Excavations (Archaeology)—Greece—Crete
Crete (Greece)—Antiquities

ISBN

9780754666158 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0754666158 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409417569 (ebook)
1409417565 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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