The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease by Charlotte A. Roberts, Jane E. Buikstra, Jane Buikstra

Synopsis

Though apparently in decline during the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis has reawakened in both developed and developing countries, particularly among susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders.

Biography

Charlotte A. Roberts is a professor of archaeology at the University of Durham. She is coauthor of The Archaeology of Disease and coeditor of Burial Archaeology: Current Research, Methods, and Development and of The Past and Present of Leprosy. Jane E. Buikstra is a professor of bioarchaeology and the director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research at Arizona State University. She is a member of the National Academy of Science, coeditor of Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Study of Human Remains, and coauthor of Forensic Anthropology: Methods and Theories.