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 BAR S1054 2002: The Past and Present of Leprosy Archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and Palaeoepidemiology of the Infectious Diseases 3 (ICEPID), University of Bradford, 26th–31st July 1999 (under the Preside edited by Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis and K. Manchester. ISBN 1841714348. Ł44.00. viii, 311 pages. Illustrated throughout with figures, drawings, tables, maps; index.
Contents: Preface (Charlotte Roberts); Part 1. Miscellanea: Jo Robertson: The International leprosy Association (ILA) global project on the history of leprosy; Anwei Skinses Law: The last leprosy communities and the people who call them home; Part 2: Clinical leprosy: A. Colin McDougall: Leprosy worldwide: current status; Jal Mehta: Social reactions in the past and present of leprosy and the socio-economic rehabilitation of leprosy-cured persons; John Lawson Stanford and Cynthia Ann Stanford: Leprosy: a correctable model of immunological perturbation; Ruth Butlin and M. Shah: Differential diagnosis at a leprosy referral clinic in Nepal ; Ximena Illaramendi, José Augusta Costa Nery, M.M. Vieira and Euzenir Nunes Sarno: Acral bone resorption in multibacillary patients. A retrospective study; Márcia Jardim, M. Skacel, S. Balassiano, Ana Maria Sales, M. Ferreira and Euzenir Nunes Sarno Progression of nerve damage after leprosy; Pedro Torres, J.R. Gomez, V. Gimeno, J.J. Camarena, J.M. Nogueira and J.C. Navarro: Hepatitis B and C infections among leprosy patients attending the sanatorium of Fontilles (Spain); Pedro Torres, John Holton, John L. Stanford and Helen D. Donoghue: Comparison of PCR primers for detection of M. leprae in skin slit samples; Part 3: Skeletal diagnosis of leprosy: Keith Manchester: Infective bone changes in leprosy; Donald J. Ortner: Observations on the pathogenesis of skeletal disease in leprosy; Della Collins Cook: Rhinomaxillary syndrome in the absence of leprosy: an exercise in differential diagnosis; Michael Schultz and Charlotte A. Roberts: Diagnosis of leprosy in skeletons from an English later Medieval hospital using histological analysis; Joël Blondiaux, Jean Dürr, Lahcen Khouchaf and Leslie E. Eisenberg: Microscopic study and X-ray analysis of two 5th century cases of leprosy: palaeoepidemiological inferences; Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer: Was there Medieval diagnostic confusion between leprosy and syphilis? An examination of the skeletal evidence; Part 4: History and palaeopathology of leprosy worldwide: Alexandra Buzhilova: The geography of leprosy in the Russian Empire: historical evidence for the dissemination of the disease ; Pia Bennike: Vilhelm Mřller-Christensen: his work and legacy; Thomas Brander and Niels Lynnerup: A possible leprosy hospital in Stubbekřbing, Denmark; John Cule: The stigma of leprosy: its historical origins and consequences with particular reference to the laws of Wales; Milan Dokládal: The history of leprosy in the territory of the Czech Republic; Michel F. Lechat: The palaeoepidemiology of leprosy: an overview; Mary E. Lewis: Infant and childhood leprosy: present and past; Piers D. Mitchell: The myth of the spread of leprosy with the crusades; Joseph E. Molto: Leprosy in Roman period skeletons from Kellis 2, Dakhleh, Egypt; Eileen Murphy and Keith Manchester: Evidence for leprosy in Medieval Ireland; Shanthakumar Thomas Oommen: The history of the treatment of leprosy and the use of hydnocarpus oil; György Pálfi, Albert Zink, Christian Haas, Antónia Marcsik, Olivier Dutour and Andreas G. Nerlich : Historical and palaeopathological evidence of leprosy in Hungary; Charlotte A. Roberts: The antiquity of leprosy in Britain: the skeletal evidence; Eugen Strouhal, Ladislava Horáčkova, Jakub Likovsky, Lenka Vargová and Jan Daneš: Traces of leprosy from the Czech kingdom; Diane L. Trembly: Perspectives on the history of leprosy in the Pacific; Heikki S. Vuorinen: History of leprosy in Finland; Alicia K. Wilbur, Jane E. Buikstra and Christopher Stojanowski: Mycobacterial disease in North America: an epidemiological test of Chaussinand’s cross-immunity hypothesis; Joe Zias: New evidence for the history of leprosy in the Ancient Near East: an overview ; Part 5: Molecular diagnosis of leprosy in skeletal material: Helen D. Donoghue, Judyta ladykowska-Rzeczycka, Antónia Marcsik, John Holton and Mark Spigelman: Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological samples; Christian J. Haas, Albert Zink, U. Szeimies and Andreas G. Nerlich: Molecular evidence of Mycobacterium leprae in historic bone samples from South Germany; Mark Spigelman and Helen D. Donoghue: The study of ancient DNA answers a palaeopathological question; Index
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