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The Past and Present of Leprosy: Archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches
Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis and K. Manchester
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This book contains papers from the Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and Palaeoepidemiology of the Infectious Diseases 3 (ICEPID) conference which took place at the University of Bradford on the 26th–31st July 1999 (under the Presidency of Professor Yves Coppens.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Front Matter
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Photo of Conference Delegates
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Conference Background and Context
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Table of Contents
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Miscellanea
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The International Leprosy Association (ILA) global project on the history of leprosy
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The last leprosy communities ... and the people who call them home
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Clinical Leprosy
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Leprosy worldwide: current status
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Social reactions in the past and present of leprosy and the socio-economic rehabilitation of leprosy-cured persons
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Leprosy: a correctable model of immunological perturbation
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Differential diagnosis at a leprosy referral clinic in Nepal
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Acral bone resorption in multibacillary patients. A retrospective clinical study
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Progression of nerve damage after leprosy treatment
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Hepatitis B and C infection among leprosy patients attending the sanatorium of Fontilles (Spain)
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Comparison of PCR primers for detection of M. leprae in skin slit samples
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Skeletal Diagnosis of Leprosy
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Infective bones changes in leprosy
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Observations on the pathogenesis of skeletal disease in leprosy
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Rhinomaxillary syndrome in the absence of leprosy: an exercise in differential diagnosis
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Diagnosis of leprosy in skeletons from an English later Medieval hospital using histological analysis
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Microscopic study and X-ray analysis of two 5th century cases of leprosy: palaeoepidemiological inferences
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Was there a Medieval diagnostic confusion between leprosy and syphillis? An examination of the skeletal evidence
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History and Palaeopathology of Leprosy Worldwide
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The geography of leprosy in the Russian Empire: historical evidence for the dissemination of the disease
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Vilhelm Møller-Christensen: his work and legacy
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A possible leprosy hospital in Stubbekøbing, Denmark
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The stigma of leprosy: its historical origins and consequences with particular reference to the laws of Wales
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The history of leprosy in the territory of the Czech Republic
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The palaeoepidemiology of leprosy: an overview
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Infant and childhood leprosy: present and past
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The myth of the spread of leprosy with the crusades
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Leprosy in Roman period skeletons from Kellis 2, Dakhleh, Egypt
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Evidence for leprosy in Medieval Ireland
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The history of the treatment of leprosy and the use of hydnocarpus oil
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Historical and palaeopathological evidence of leprosy in Hungary
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The antiquity of leprosy in Britain: the skeletal evidence
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Traces of leprosy from the Czech Kingdom
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Perspectives on the history of leprosy in the Pacific
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History of leprosy in Finland
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Mycobacterial disease in North America: an epidemiological test of Chaussinand's cross-immunity hypothesis
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New evidence for the history of leprosy in the Ancient Near East: an overview
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Molecular Diagnosis of Leprosy in Skeletal Material
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Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological samples
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Molecular evidence of Mycobacterium leprae in historic bone samples from South Germany
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The study of ancient DNA answers a palaeopathological question
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Index
Citable Link
Published: 2002
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407324432 (ebook)
- 9781841714349 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1054
- Multiperiod
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Egypt and Sudan
- Western Europe and Britain
- Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- British Isles
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Medicine / Palaeopathology
- Levant / Near East
- Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
- Scandinavia
- Central and South Asia
- North America