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Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease Across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease Across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

Webb, Stephen

Paperback

Medical ReferenceAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521110491
ISBN13: 9780521110495
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 7 2009
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Using data collected from all parts of the continent, this book is a study of the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50,000 years. It represents the first continental survey of its kind and is the first to quantify and describe important aspects of Australian hunter-gatherer health. Major categories of disease described are: stress, osteoarthritis, fractures, congenital deformations, neoplasms and non-specific and treponemal infections. The author also describes some surgical techniques used by Aboriginal people. A broad-ranging book offering fresh insight into the study of Australian prehistory and Aboriginal culture, the book also illuminates the origins and ecology of human disease.

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