New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care: Further Case Studies and Expanded Theory

Introduction: Building a Bioarchaeology of Care.- 1. Providing a context: thinking and theory in the bioarchaeology of care. - SECTION ONE :Case studies of caregiving: testing the boundaries of bioarchaeology of care research.- 2. Using the Index of Care on a Bronze-Age teenager with poliomyelitis or cerebral palsy: from speculation to strong inference.- 3. Cared for or outcast? A case for continuous care in pre-contact U.S. Southwest.- 4. The potential and challenges of constructing a bioarchaeology of care for a person with leprosy in the Late Medieval Period.- 5. Dealing with difference: the osteobiographies of two health-challenged women from medieval Poland.- 6. Surviving trepanation: approaching the relationship of violence and the care of war wounds through a case study from prehistoric Peru.- 7. Inferring disability and care provision in late prehistoric Tennessee.- 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).- SECTION TWO:New horizons in bioarchaeology of care theory and practice.- 9. Mummy studies and the soft tissue evidence of care.- 10. The bioarchaeological evidence for elder care in Roman Britain.- 11. Caring for bodies or simply saving souls: The emergence of institutional care in Spanish Colonial America.- 12. Potential applications of the bioarchaeology of care methodological approach for historic institutionalized populations.- 13. Modeling care in prehistory through an analysis of hunter-gatherer social systems.- 14. Digitised Diseases : seeing beyond the specimen, understanding disease and disability in the past.- 15. What moral and ethical considerations should inform bioarchaeology of care analysis?.- 16. Highlighting the importance of the past: public engagement and communication from a bioarchaeology of care perspective.- CONCLUSION.- 17. The bioarchaeology of care: current status and future directions.