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Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations
Title
Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations / edited by Piers D. Mitchell.
ISBN
9781472449078
147244907X
9781472449085
9781472449092
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Physical Description
xii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 17, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Why we need to know about sanitation in the past / Piers D Mitchell
Assessing the impact of sanitation upon health in early human populations from hunter-gatherers to ancient civilizations, using theoretical modeling / Piers D Mitchell
Waste management in early urban Southern Mesopotamia / Augusta McMahon
Latrines and wastewater sanitation technologies in Ancient Greece / Georgios P. Antoniou and Andreas N. Angelakis
A tale of two cities : the efficacy of ancient and medieval sanitation methods / Craig Taylor
Sewers, cesspits and middens : a survey of the evidence for 2,000 years of waste disposal in York, UK / Allan R. Hall and Harry K. Kenward
Human intestinal parasites and dysentery in Africa and the Middle East prior to 1500 / Evilena Anastasiou and Piers D Mitchell
Parasitism, cesspits and sanitation in East Asian countries prior to modernization / Min Seo and Dong Hoon Shin
New World paleoparasitology / Adauto Arajo, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Martin Fugassa, Daniela Leles, Luciana Sianto, Sheila Maria Mendonça de Souza, Juliana Dutra, Alena Iñiguez, Karl Reinhard
Parasites in European populations from prehistory to the industrial revolution / Evilena Anastasiou
A first attempt to retrace the history of dysentery caused by entamoeba histolytica / Matthieu Le Bailly and Françoise Bouchet
A better understanding of sanitation and health in the past / Piers D Mitchell.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - prevention & control.
Toilet Facilities - history.
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