Bi7121 Principles of palaeopathology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Lenka Vargová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jan Šmarda, CSc.
Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Eva Drozdová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:50 F01B2/1S05
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Aim of the course is to introduce student to history of most common deseases that suffered historical populations and animal (selected deseases). At the end of the course will be student able to recognise on skeletal remains some diseases of bones, teeth and mummified tissues. The course is desirable especially for students of anthropogenetics, anthropology, archeology, forensic medicine and related specialities.
Syllabus
  • 1.Introduction to paleopathology - definition of the field of knowledge, perspectives of paleopathology, methods paleopathological survey
  • 2.Inherited anomalies and dysplasias - malphormations of individual parts of skeleton, developmental deviations of skeletal system, congenital anomalies of joints
  • 3.Degenerative–produktive deseases – arthritis, spondylosis, DISH
  • 4.-6. Trauma and artificial interferences – fractures, dislocations and luxations of joints, trauma caused by weapons or sharp instruments, intentional deformations of skeleton and mutilations, trepinations, scalping, cauterisation, amputation, deadly injuries at administratition of law justice
  • 5.-7. Nonpecific inflammations – acute and chronical ostheomyelitis, aseptic inflammation of bones (revmathoid arthritis, Bechtěrev desease, psoriatic arthropaty)
  • 6.-8. Specific infalmmations – tuberculosis, syphilis, leprosy
  • 7.-9. Most frequent infection diseases in past – plague, cholera, smallpox, infantile paralysis
  • 8.Tumors – benign (osteoma, chondroma, fibroma, myoma) and malignant (osteosarkoma, hemoblastses, bone metastases of malinant tumors).
  • 9.Skeletal displays of anemias(cribra orbitalia), metabolic ostheopaties (scurvy, rachitis, ostheoprosis, gout)
  • 10.Endocrinal osteopaties – hypophysar disturbances in grouwth, hyperparathyroidism, frontal internal hyperostosis
  • 11.Unclassified ostheopathies – mycoses and diseases similar to mycoses, Harris lines, Paget desease, juvenile thoracic kyphosis, Legg–Calvé–Perthes–Maydl desease
  • 12.Mummies, inner and parasitic deseases – types of natural mummies, anthropogenic mummification, deseases found in mummies.
  • 13.Deseases of teeth and dental alveoles – methods of study of dental caries, dental atrition, inflamations, hypoplastic changes of teeth tissues, orthodontic anomalies, pathology of mandibular joint.
Literature
  • VARGOVÁ, Lenka, Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ and Miroslava MENŠÍKOVÁ. Zdravotní péče o brněnské obyvatele v 18. a 19. století (Health Care of Brno Population in 18th and 19th Centuries). Brno: Portál Lékařské fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, 2010, 147 pp. Multimediální podpora výuky klinických a zdravotni. ISSN 1801-6103. info
  • HORÁČKOVÁ, Ladislava, Eugen STROUHAL and Lenka VARGOVÁ. Základy paleopatologie (Bases of Palaepathology). Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2004, 260 pp. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie. ISBN 80-7204-274-2. info
  • AUFDERHEIDE, Arthur C. and Conrado RODRÍGUES-MARTÍN. The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xviii, 478. ISBN 9781107403772. info
  • ORTNER, Donald J. and Walter G. J. PUTSCHAR. Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, xi, 488 s. ISBN 0-87474-728-7. info
Teaching methods
lectures, demonstrations.
Assessment methods
written test followed by oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2014.
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