Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present.
(2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present. In S. Sheridan, & L. Gregoricka (Eds.), Purposeful pain: bioarchaeological and biocultural perspective on the embodiment of intentional suffering (21-38). Springer Verlag
Outputs (226)
What factors make a community more vulnerable to COVID-19? A summary of a British Academy workshop. (2020)
Other
Abrams, D., Impact, C. F. H., Hand, D., Heath, A., Karlsen, S., Mills, M., Nazroo, J., Richards, L., & Roberts, C. (2020). What factors make a community more vulnerable to COVID-19? A summary of a British Academy workshop
Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification (2020)
Book Chapter
Davies-Barrett, A., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. (2020). Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-8Particulate air pollution—smoke, chemicals, pollens, molds, animal waste, sand, and other particles—is a serious health issue today, causing irritation and inflammation of the respiratory tract, directly resulting in respiratory conditions such as ma... Read More about Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification.
Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-3This chapter considers how paleopathology can help people beyond academia to appreciate how and why humans and their diseases have co-evolved alongside changes in their environment, why we still have diseases that we thought had long gone into the hi... Read More about Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future.
Leprosy: Past and Present (2020)
Book
Roberts, C. (2020). Leprosy: Past and Present. University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16zjzzmThrough an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many l... Read More about Leprosy: Past and Present.
Shape the Future: how the social sciences, humanities and the arts can SHAPE a positive, post-pandemic future for peoples, economies and environments (Appendix 16 (240-244):Roberts CA: Words, stigma and the coronavirus: implications of COVID-19 for holistic approaches to infectious diseases). (2020)
Journal Article
Morgan Jones, M., Abrams, D., & Lahiri, A. (online). Shape the Future: how the social sciences, humanities and the arts can SHAPE a positive, post-pandemic future for peoples, economies and environments (Appendix 16 (240-244):Roberts CA: Words, stigma and the coronavirus: implications of COVID-19 for holistic approaches to infectious diseases). Journal of the British Academy, 8, 167-266. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/008.167
The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2020). The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs. In L. Friedman, M. Dedicoat, & P. Davies (Eds.), Clinical Tuberculosis. (6th). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351249980-1This chapter considers the primary evidence for tuberculosis (TB) in the past-in the remains of people themselves-chart the distribution of the infection through time from a global perspective, and consider historical data for the presence of the dis... Read More about The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs.
What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Roberts, C., Wrobel, G., & Westaway, M. (2020). What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them
Advancing the understanding of treponemal disease in the past and present (2020)
Journal Article
and present. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 171: Yearbook of Physical Anthropology(S70), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23988
Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK. In K. Squires, D. Errickson, & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains :a global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology (133-155). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_7This chapter focuses on the ethical and practical considerations concerning archaeological human remains in the UK. It first contextualises the chapter by including a personal perspective of the author’s experience as a bioarchaeologist over the last... Read More about Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK.