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Bioarchaeology of Care Through Population-Level Analyses.

Bioarchaeology of Care Through Population-Level Analyses.

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著者・編者Schrenk, Alecia / Tremblay, Lori A. (eds.),
シリーズ (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives)
出版社 (University Press of Florida, US)
出版年月2022
ページ数206 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A00-93054>

解説

Representing current and emerging methods and theory, this volume introduces new avenues for exploring how prehistoric and historic communities provided healthcare for their sick, injured, and disabled members. It adjusts and expands the bioarchaeology of care framework, a way of analyzing caregiving in the past designed for individual case studies of human skeletal remains, to detect and examine care at the population level.

Covering a range of time from the Archaic period to the present, contributors discuss community settings including British hospitals and nursing homes, a shell burial mound site in Alabama, and the Mississippi State Asylum. These essays offer insights into the care given to children and those with reduced mobility, the social burden of healthcare, practices of euthanasia, and the relationship between care for the mentally ill and structural violence.

A necessary extension to our understanding of the complexities of caregiving in the past, Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses shows that it is important to recognize the impact of disease or disability on both the individuals affected and their broader communities. Contributors demonstrate that flexibility in bioarchaeological modeling and methodology can result in robust and nuanced scholarship on caregiving in the past and the societies that provided that care.