Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Caryn E. Tegtmeyer; Debra L. Martin

doi:10.5771/9781498547154

Summary

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by exploring the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in bioarchaeological and forensic contexts. Case examples from prehistoric, historic, and modern settings are included to highlight the avenues through which injury recidivism can be studied and analyzed in skeletal remains and to illustrate the limitations of studying injury recidivism in deceased populations.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-4714-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-4715-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Review of Injury Recidivism in Clinical Research No access
2. Addressing the Limitations of Clinical Injury Recidivism Research No access
3. Clinical Injury Recidivism and Bioarchaeology No access
4. References No access
1. 1. Bioarchaeological Context No access
  2. Evidence for Injury Recidivism at Abu Fatima No access
  3. Results and Interpretations No access
  4. Discussion No access
  5. Nubian Weaponry No access
  6. Injury Recidivism in Ancient Nubia No access
  7. Bioarchaeological Interpretations No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. References No access
2. 1. Context No access
  2. Trauma Data No access
  3. Victims at Castle Rock Pueblo No access
  4. Victims at Sand Canyon Pueblo No access
  5. Discussion No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. References No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Identifying Patters of Re-injury in the Past No access
  3. Archaeological Context No access
  4. Fremont Culture in the Great Basin No access
  5. Ancestral Pueblo No access
  6. Materials and Methods No access
  7. Injury Recidivism No access
  8. Results No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. References No access
1. 1. Context Acquired Syphilis No access
  2. The Pox in Post-Medieval England No access
  3. Trauma in a Bioarchaeological Perspective No access
  4. Methods and Materials No access
  5. Syphilis and Treponemal Disease No access
  6. Other Chronic Disease Conditions No access
  7. Trauma No access
  8. Basic Demographics No access
  9. The Bioarchaeological Evidence for Injury Recidivism, Polytrauma, Accumulative Trauma, and Violence No access
  10. Interpretation of the Evidence and its Application to Broader Perspectives No access
  11. What this Case Study reveals about the Nature of Injury Recidivism and Accumulative Trauma and How It Fits within Broader Issues No access
  12. Conclusion No access
  13. Notes No access
  14. References No access
2. 1. The Social and Economic Efects of the Industrial Revolution in London No access
  2. Social Differentiation, Urbanization, and Trauma No access
  3. Opportunities for Treatment and Future Injury No access
  4. Archaeological Samples St. Bride No access
  5. Chelsea No access
  6. Methods No access
  7. Results Demography No access
  8. Fracture Prevalence No access
  9. Discussion Traumatic Injury No access
  10. Patterns of Injury Recidivism No access
  11. Limitations No access
  12. Conclusion No access
  13. References No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. A Bioarchaeological Model of Structural Violence No access
  3. The Rise of the Sugar Economy and the Impact on Enslaved Health No access
  4. Trauma and Enslavement No access
  5. The Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Case Study St. Croix: Geography and History No access
  6. History and Archaeological Context of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church No access
  7. Materials and Methods No access
  8. Results No access
  9. Discussion No access
  10. References No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Historical Context No access
  3. Materials and Methods No access
  4. Trauma No access
  5. Activity-Related Changes No access
  6. Pathological Conditions No access
  7. Results No access
  8. Discussion No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. References No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. A Brief Overview of the Collections and their Contexts No access
  3. The Dissected Destitute: Poverty, Interpersonal Violence, Alcoholism, and Injury Recidivism No access
  4. Violence, Polytrauma, and the Great Migration No access
  5. The Deviant Dead: Fractured Lives of the Institutionalized No access
  6. Lessons Learned from the Destitute and Deviant Dead: Interpreting what Anatomical Collections Can Tell us about the Relationship No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Acknowledgments No access
  9. References No access
1. 1. Homelessness, Transients, and Safety No access
  2. Health, Risk, and Injury Recidivism No access
  3. Recidivism Expectations No access
  4. Materials and Methods No access
  5. Results No access
  6. Discussion No access
  7. Limitations to the Study of Accumulative Injuries No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. References No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Injury Recidivism and Possible Behavioral Consequences No access
  3. Urban Las Vegas, Nevada (2015) No access
  4. Violence Rates in Clark County No access
  5. The Forensic Evidence for Injury Recidivism, Polytrauma, Accumulative Trauma, and Violence No access
  6. Individual A No access
  7. Individual B No access
  8. Individual C No access
  9. Individual D No access
  10. Interpretation of the Evidence and its Application to Broader Perspectives Injury Recidivism No access
  11. Traumatic Brain Injury No access
  12. What This Case Study Reveals about the Nature of Injury Recidivism and Accumulative Trauma and How It Fits within Broader Issues No access
  13. Limitations and Considerations No access
  14. Conclusion No access
  15. References No access
3. 1. Injury Surveillance by the Medical Examiner/Coroner No access
  2. Cause and Manner of Death Classification No access
  3. Case Study of an Infant Homicide No access
  4. Decedent Identification No access
  5. Case Study of an Unidentified Male Recovered in the Woods No access
  6. Case Study of an Unidentified Exhumed Skeleton No access
  7. The Older Homeless Decedent No access
  8. Case Study of an Unidentified Homeless Male Recovered in a Swamp No access
  9. Summary No access
  10. References No access
Conclusion No access Pages 233 - 236
Appendix A No access Pages 237 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 246
About the Contributors No access Pages 247 - 254