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The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Implications for Paleopathology (2022)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R., & Caldwell, J. L. (2022). The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Implications for Paleopathology. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology (520-540). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003130994

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis evolved from earlier research by Barker and colleagues in the 1980s, which demonstrated a link between early life adversity and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adult... Read More about The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Implications for Paleopathology.

Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past (2022)
Journal Article
Perry, M. A., & Gowland, R. L. (2022). Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past. International Journal of Paleopathology, 39, 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.09.002

Objective: This article explores the theory and utility of a syndemic approach for the study of disease in the past. Syndemic principles are examined alongside other theoretical developments within bioarchaeology. Two case studies are provided to ill... Read More about Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past.

Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England) (2022)
Journal Article
Filipek, K., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Moore, J., Tucker, K., & Evans, J. (2022). Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24498

Objectives: This study examines the biological sex and geographical origins of adolescents buried at the St Mary Magdalen leprosarium (Winchester, UK). The data are combined with archaeological and palaeopathological evidence to broaden the understan... Read More about Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England).