George Armelagos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Armelagos |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Armelagos |
| SIGNATURE | ARMELAGOS G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The evolution of disease: Anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions
BACKGROUND: The model of epidemiologic transitions has served as a guiding framework for understanding relationships between patterns of human health and disease and economic development for the past several decades. However, epidemiologic transition theory is infrequently employed in epidemiology. OBJECTIVE: Moving beyond Omran's original formulation, we discuss critiques and modifications of the theory of epidemiologic transitions and highlight…
An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections
Irrigation and infection: The immunoepidemiology of schistosomiasis in ancient Nubia
Schistosomiasis has been deemed “the most important water‐based disease from a global public‐health perspective” in modern populations. To better understand the burden of schistosomiasis in ancient populations, we conducted immunologic examinations of desiccated tissue samples from two ancient Nubian populations, Wadi Halfa ( N = 46) and Kulubnarti ( N = 191). Saqia irrigated agriculture increases the available habitat for the aquatic vector snai…
Evolutionists and creationists at the dinner table
The evolutionist and creationist debate about human origins has contested the content of textbooks, what is taught in classrooms, and what is discussed on the Internet. The controversy has spawned public‐interest groups that continue to frame the debate. The National Center for Science Education monitors attempts to incorporate creationism into the classroom and textbooks. The Institute for Creation Research and the Discovery Institute have inves…
Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology
Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although modern genetics has shown time and again that race is not a biological reality and cannot adequately describe human variation, many anthropologists are unable or unwilling to put aside racial typology as an explanatory tool. Here, we consider the case of forensic anthropology as an example often held up by uncritical anthropologists as evidence that the…
Captain of death: The story of tuberculosis
Captain of death: The story of tuberculosis
Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease
Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease
Disease, Darwin, and medicine in the third epidemiological transition
Introduction to this issue
On generating birth rates from skeletal populations
Sattenspiel and Harpending (1983, American Antiquity 48(3): 489–498) have stated that the life expectancy at birth ( e ) which paleodemographers calculate from skeletal population data is actually the mean age at death (ā d ) of the population. Yet, only when a population is neither growing or declining (i.e., is stationary) are these two statistics equivalent. They further assert, that the mean age at the death (ā d ) is more accurately interpre…
Physical Anthropology: Bones, Bodies, and Disease: Evidence of Disease and Abnormality in Early Man. Calvin Wells
Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology
Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although modern genetics has shown time and again that race is not a biological reality and cannot adequately describe human variation, many anthropologists are unable or unwilling to put aside racial typology as an explanatory tool. Here, we consider the case of forensic anthropology as an example often held up by uncritical anthropologists as evidence that the…
On generating birth rates from skeletal populations
Sattenspiel and Harpending (1983, American Antiquity 48(3): 489–498) have stated that the life expectancy at birth ( e ) which paleodemographers calculate from skeletal population data is actually the mean age at death (ā d ) of the population. Yet, only when a population is neither growing or declining (i.e., is stationary) are these two statistics equivalent. They further assert, that the mean age at the death (ā d ) is more accurately interpre…
Irrigation and infection: The immunoepidemiology of schistosomiasis in ancient Nubia
Schistosomiasis has been deemed “the most important water‐based disease from a global public‐health perspective” in modern populations. To better understand the burden of schistosomiasis in ancient populations, we conducted immunologic examinations of desiccated tissue samples from two ancient Nubian populations, Wadi Halfa ( N = 46) and Kulubnarti ( N = 191). Saqia irrigated agriculture increases the available habitat for the aquatic vector snai…
Introduction to this issue
An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections
Physical Anthropology: Bones, Bodies, and Disease: Evidence of Disease and Abnormality in Early Man. Calvin Wells
On generating birth rates from skeletal populations
Sattenspiel and Harpending (1983, American Antiquity 48(3): 489–498) have stated that the life expectancy at birth ( e ) which paleodemographers calculate from skeletal population data is actually the mean age at death (ā d ) of the population. Yet, only when a population is neither growing or declining (i.e., is stationary) are these two statistics equivalent. They further assert, that the mean age at the death (ā d ) is more accurately interpre…
Introduction to this issue
Disease, Darwin, and medicine in the third epidemiological transition
Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease
Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease
Captain of death: The story of tuberculosis
Captain of death: The story of tuberculosis
Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology
Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although modern genetics has shown time and again that race is not a biological reality and cannot adequately describe human variation, many anthropologists are unable or unwilling to put aside racial typology as an explanatory tool. Here, we consider the case of forensic anthropology as an example often held up by uncritical anthropologists as evidence that the…
Evolutionists and creationists at the dinner table
The evolutionist and creationist debate about human origins has contested the content of textbooks, what is taught in classrooms, and what is discussed on the Internet. The controversy has spawned public‐interest groups that continue to frame the debate. The National Center for Science Education monitors attempts to incorporate creationism into the classroom and textbooks. The Institute for Creation Research and the Discovery Institute have inves…
Irrigation and infection: The immunoepidemiology of schistosomiasis in ancient Nubia
Schistosomiasis has been deemed “the most important water‐based disease from a global public‐health perspective” in modern populations. To better understand the burden of schistosomiasis in ancient populations, we conducted immunologic examinations of desiccated tissue samples from two ancient Nubian populations, Wadi Halfa ( N = 46) and Kulubnarti ( N = 191). Saqia irrigated agriculture increases the available habitat for the aquatic vector snai…
The evolution of disease: Anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions
BACKGROUND: The model of epidemiologic transitions has served as a guiding framework for understanding relationships between patterns of human health and disease and economic development for the past several decades. However, epidemiologic transition theory is infrequently employed in epidemiology. OBJECTIVE: Moving beyond Omran's original formulation, we discuss critiques and modifications of the theory of epidemiologic transitions and highlight…
An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections
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