Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives /
Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences. Such investigations typically take a case study approach and focus on the functional aspects of impairments. However, these interpret...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Bioarchaeology and Social Theory,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56949-9 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology - An Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability
- 2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology
- 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model
- 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian context: The case of Shah Daula’s chuhas
- Part II Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability
- 5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery
- 6 Kojo’s Dis/ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an 18th-Century Jamaican Maroon Community
- 7 Rendered unfit: “Defective” children in the Erie County Poorhouse
- Part III Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches
- 8 The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain
- 9 Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairment and Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis
- 10 Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages
- 11 Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851-1913
- Part IV Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past
- 12 Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection
- 13 Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee
- 14 Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in its Wider Context. .