julia shaw
University College London, Institute of Archaeology, Faculty Member
N. Sykes & J. Shaw (eds.). 2022. The Archaeology of Medicine & Healthcare. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Archaeology-of-Medicine-and-Healthcare/Sykes-Shaw/p/book/9780367759247 ISBN 9780367759247 Published June 9, 2022... more
N. Sykes & J. Shaw (eds.). 2022. The Archaeology of Medicine & Healthcare. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Archaeology-of-Medicine-and-Healthcare/Sykes-Shaw/p/book/9780367759247
ISBN 9780367759247
Published June 9, 2022 by Routledge
196 Pages
The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved – through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving – are fundamentals of human societies. However, archaeological investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health beliefs. This volume highlights the importance of medical worldviews as a means of understanding healthcare and medical practice in the past.
The volume brings together ten chapters, with themes ranging from a bioarchaeology of Neanderthal healthcare, to Roman air quality, decontamination strategies at Australian quarantine centres, to local resistance to colonial medical structures in South America. Within their chapters the contributors argue for greater integration between archaeology and both the medical and environmental humanities, while the Introduction presents suggestions for future engagement with emerging discourse in community and public health, environmental and planetary health, genetic and epigenetic medicine, 'exposome' studies and ecological public health, microbiome studies and historical disability studies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of World Archaeology.
ISBN 9780367759247
Published June 9, 2022 by Routledge
196 Pages
The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved – through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving – are fundamentals of human societies. However, archaeological investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health beliefs. This volume highlights the importance of medical worldviews as a means of understanding healthcare and medical practice in the past.
The volume brings together ten chapters, with themes ranging from a bioarchaeology of Neanderthal healthcare, to Roman air quality, decontamination strategies at Australian quarantine centres, to local resistance to colonial medical structures in South America. Within their chapters the contributors argue for greater integration between archaeology and both the medical and environmental humanities, while the Introduction presents suggestions for future engagement with emerging discourse in community and public health, environmental and planetary health, genetic and epigenetic medicine, 'exposome' studies and ecological public health, microbiome studies and historical disability studies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of World Archaeology.
Research Interests:
Monograph: Shaw, J. 2007. Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religion and Social Change, c. 3rd century BC to 5th century AD. London: British Academy (hardback) Available to purchase here:... more
Monograph:
Shaw, J. 2007. Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religion and Social Change, c. 3rd century BC to 5th century AD. London: British Academy (hardback)
Available to purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/Buddhist-Landscapes-in-Central-India-Sanchi-Hill-and-Archaeologies-of-Religious/Shaw/p/book/9780367605452
Paperback edition (2020) London: Routledge. Available to purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/Buddhist-Landscapes-in-Central-India-Sanchi-Hill-and-Archaeologies-of-Religious/Shaw/p/book/9780367605452
Ebook version (2016):
Available on Taylor & Francis Ebooks
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315432656
E-rental version (2020):
An e-rental version is available on Internet Archive with limited access to (1) verified blind and print-disabled patrons and (2) general patrons via controlled digital lending - https://archive.org/details/buddhistlandscap0000shaw
Book reviews:
Hawkes 2012 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00048146
Becker 2012 - doi:10.1353/asi.2014.0006
Shaw, J. 2007. Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religion and Social Change, c. 3rd century BC to 5th century AD. London: British Academy (hardback)
Available to purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/Buddhist-Landscapes-in-Central-India-Sanchi-Hill-and-Archaeologies-of-Religious/Shaw/p/book/9780367605452
Paperback edition (2020) London: Routledge. Available to purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/Buddhist-Landscapes-in-Central-India-Sanchi-Hill-and-Archaeologies-of-Religious/Shaw/p/book/9780367605452
Ebook version (2016):
Available on Taylor & Francis Ebooks
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315432656
E-rental version (2020):
An e-rental version is available on Internet Archive with limited access to (1) verified blind and print-disabled patrons and (2) general patrons via controlled digital lending - https://archive.org/details/buddhistlandscap0000shaw
Book reviews:
Hawkes 2012 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00048146
Becker 2012 - doi:10.1353/asi.2014.0006