New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care Further Case Studies and Expanded Theory 1st Edition by Lorna Tilley, Alecia Schrenk 3319399004 9783319399003

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ISBN 10: 3319399004

ISBN 13: 9783319399003

Author: Lorna Tilley, Alecia A. Schrenk

New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past. Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual survived with, or following, a serious pathology suggests this person most likely received some form of care from others. This observation was first made half a century ago, but it is only in the last five years that health-related caregiving has been accepted as a topic for bioarchaeology research. In this time, interest has grown exponentially. A focus on care provides a dynamic framework for examining the experiences of disease and disability in the past – at the level of the individual receiving care, and that of the community providing it. When caregiving can be identified in the archaeological record, bioarchaeologists may be able to offer unique insights into aspects of past lifeways. This volume represents the work of an international, diverse, cross-disciplinary group of contributors, each bringing their own particular focus, style and expertise to analyzing past health-related care. Nineteen chapters offer content that ranges from an introduction to the basic ‘bioarchaeology of care’ approach, through original case studies of care provision, to new theoretical perspectives in this emerging area of scholarship. This book creates a synergy that challenges our thinking about past health-related care behaviors and about the implications of these behaviors for understanding the social environment in which they took place.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care

Chapter 2: Showing That They Cared: An Introduction to Thinking, Theory and Practice in the Bio

Chapter 3: Applying the Index of Care to the Case Study of a Bronze Age Teenager Who Lived with

Chapter 4: Cared for or Outcasts: A Case for Continuous Care in the Precontact U.S. Southwest

Chapter 5: Inferring Disability and Care Provision in Late Prehistoric Tennessee

Chapter 6: Applying the ‘Index of Care’ to a Person Who Experienced Leprosy in Late Medieval

Chapter 7: Dealing with Difference: Using the Osteobiographies of a Woman with Leprosy and a Woman

Chapter 8: A Post-mortem Evaluation of the Degree of Mobility in an Individual with Severe Kyphosis

Chapter 9: Surviving Trepanation: Approaching the Relationship of Violence and the Care of “Wounded”

Chapter 10: Mummy Studies and the Soft Tissue Evidence of Care

Chapter 11: Towards a Bioarchaeology of Care of Children

Chapter 12: Growing Old: Biographies of Disability and Care in Later Life

Chapter 13: Caring for Bodies or Simply Saving Souls: The Emergence of Institutional Care in Spanish America

Chapter 14: An Exploration of a Modified Bioarchaeology of Care Methodological Approach for Historic Institutions

Chapter 15: Subadult Mortality Among Hunter-Gatherers: Implications for the Reconstruction of Care

Chapter 16: Digitised Diseases: Seeing Beyond the Specimen to Understand Disease and Disability

Chapter 17: What Ethical Considerations Should Inform Bioarchaeology of Care Analysis?

Chapter 18: Highlighting the Importance of the Past: Public Engagement and Bioarchaeology of Care

Chapter 19: Conclusion: New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care

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