Leprosy (Other Keyword)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Croix is rich with history. From 1625 through today it has been occupied by seven colonial powers and offers unique insights about the workings of globalization, which impacts Crucian healthcare, life, and death. This project examines the St. Croix Leper Hospital that operated from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Most original hospital...
Finding Faces in the Yellow Brick Road: The Elusive Lives and Deaths of St. Croix’s Residents with Leprosy (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the St. Croix Leper Hospital’s founding in 1888 to its dissolution in 1954, hundreds of individuals with leprosy passed through its facilities. The hospital residents constituted a social fringe that was disproportionately comprised of people of color and about which documentation was often biased. Using a combination of primary historical sources including newspapers, photographs,...
Leprosy, Segregation, & Burial Context: Remote Desert Living in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (2016)
Stable oxygen isotope analysis of tooth enamel and bone apatite from adults afflicted with leprosy from the Kellis 2 cemetery (50-450 AD) in the Dakhleh Oasis provides insight into social perceptions of disease stigma during the Roman-Christian era in Egypt. Because there are no grave markers found in Kellis 2, this research focuses on the spatial analysis of stable isotope results to develop an interpretation of the burial location of leprosy cases. In particular, stable oxygen isotopes, which...
The potential and challenges of constructing a bioarchaeology of care for a person with leprosy in the late medieval period (2015)
Everybody suffered ill health at some point during their lives in the past. In late medieval England (12th-16th centuries AD) historical data suggest the availability of care and treatment of disease, but it is unknown how many, and which, people got access to care. There is also little direct evidence of specific care seen in skeletal remains beyond trepanation, amputation, and dentistry. Using the ‘Index of Care’ (IoC; Tilley and Cameron 2014), this paper describes bone changes of leprosy in a...