New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care

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 Bioarchaeology of Care

Chapter 3 Applying the Index of Care to the Case Study of a Bronze Age Teenager Who Lived with Paralysis: Moving from Speculation to Strong Inference

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 Chichester, England

Chapter 7 Dealing with Difference: Using the Osteobiographies of a Woman with Leprosy and a Woman with Gigantism from Medieval Poland to Identify Practices of Care

Chapter 8 A Post-mortem Evaluation of the Degree of Mobility in an Individual with Severe Kyphoscoliosis Using Direct Digital Radiography (DR) and Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT)

Chapter 9 Surviving Trepanation: Approaching the Relationship of Violence and the Care of “War Wounds” Through a Case Study from Prehistoric Peru

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 Colonial America

Chapter 14 An Exploration of a Modified Bioarchaeology of Care Methodological Approach for Historic Institutionalized Populations

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

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

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 Research

Chapter 19 Conclusion: New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care