Cover -- Half-title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction and Diagnosis -- Diagnosis in palaeopathology -- Other comparisons -- A note on health… -- …And mummies -- 2 Bone Metabolism and Pathology -- Types of bone -- The bone matrix -- Bone cells and cytokines -- Bone mass -- Remodelling -- Bone pathology -- Pathology, pseudopathology and normal variation -- 3 Diseases of Joints, Part 1 -- Osteoarthritis -- Precipitants of osteoarthritis -- The natural history of osteoarthritis -- Diagnosis of osteoarthritis -- Osteoarthritis at individual sites -- The association between osteoarthritis and other conditions -- Rotator cuff disease and intervertebral disc disease -- Schmorl's nodes -- 4 Diseases of Joints, Part 2 -- Rheumatoid arthritis -- The natural history of rheumatoid arthritis -- Sero-negative arthropathies -- Erosive osteoarthritis -- The spondyloarthritides -- Ankylosing spondylitis -- Reiter's syndrome (reactive spondyloarthropathy) -- Psoriatic arthropathy -- Enteropathic arthropathy -- Undifferentiated spondyloarthritides -- Juvenile arthritis -- Gout -- bunions -- 5 Bone Forming and DISH -- Bone forming and bone formers -- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (dish) -- Ossification in the posterior longitudinal ligament -- Hyperostosis frontalis interna -- Heterotopic ossification -- Osteopetrosis -- 6 Infectious Diseases -- Osteomyelitis -- Special forms of osteomyelitis -- Tuberculosis -- Leprosy -- Venereal syphilis -- The origins of syphilis -- Changes in the skeleton -- Poliomyelitis -- Smallpox -- Fungal infections of bone -- Parasitic disease -- Non-specific infections -- 7 Metabolic Diseases -- Osteoporosis -- Paget's disease of bone (pdb) -- Rickets and osteomalacia -- Osteomalacia -- Scurvy -- Other metabolic diseases -- Thyroid Disease -- Hyperparathyroidism.

Diabetes -- Anaemia -- 8 Trauma -- Fractures and dislocations -- Fractures -- Treatment of Fractures -- Complications of Fractures -- Healing of Fractures -- The Epidemiology of Fractures -- Comments of the Aetiology of Some Fractures -- Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) -- Dislocations and subluxations -- Dislocation of the shoulder -- Wounding -- Gunshot wounds -- Amputation -- Trephination -- The autopsy -- Legalised trauma -- Beheading -- Hanging -- 9 Tumours -- Epidemiology of bone tumours -- The diagnosis of tumours in human remains -- Benign tumours -- Tumours Arising from Bone -- Tumours Arising from Cartilage -- Malignant tumours -- Primary Malignant Bone Tumours -- The Periosteal Response to Malignant Bone Tumours -- Ewing's Sarcoma -- Metastatic bone tumours -- Diagnosing Secondary Tumours -- 10 Disorders of Growth and Development -- Normal growth -- Abnormal growth and development -- Dwarfism -- Pituitary Dwarfism -- Turner's Syndrome -- Achondroplasia -- Gigantism -- Disorders of Skull Growth -- Cleft Palate -- Developmental Disorders of the Hips -- Fibrous Dysplasia -- Kyphosis and Scoliosis -- Klippel-Feil Syndrome -- Other Spinal Anomalies -- 11 Soft Tissue Diseases -- Cardio-vascular lesions -- Neurological lesions -- Stones and cysts -- 12 Dental Disease -- Caries -- Ante-mortem tooth loss -- Periodontal disease -- Dental calculus -- Periapical cavities -- Developmental defects of enamel -- Ectopic teeth and morphological variation -- Dental tumours -- Dental cysts -- 13 An Introduction to Epidemiology -- Disease frequency -- Incidence -- Prevalence -- Outcome variables -- Missing Data -- Overall Prevalence -- Denominator-free Methods -- Ranking -- Proportional Morbidity or Mortality Ratio -- Analytical Epidemiology -- Case-control Studies in Palaeopathology -- Planning a Study -- A Note about Teeth -- Select Bibliography -- Index.