Bioarchaeology of impairment and disability : theoretical, ethnohistorical, and methodological perspectives / Jennifer F. Byrnes, Jennifer L. Muller, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology -- An Introduction -- Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability -- 2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology -- 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model -- 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian context: The case of Shah Daula's chuhas -- Part II Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability -- 5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery -- 6 Kojo's Dis/ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an 18th-Century Jamaican Maroon Community -- 7 Rendered unfit: "Defective" children in the Erie County Poorhouse -- Part III Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches -- 8 The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain -- 9 Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairment and Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis -- 10 Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages -- 11 Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851-1913 -- Part IV Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past -- 12 Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection -- 13 Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee -- 14 Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in its Wider Context. .