M K Zuckerman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 56598 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M K Zuckerman |
| PRENOMES | M K |
| SOBRENOME | Zuckerman |
| ASSINATURA | ZUCKERMAN M K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Mississippi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8967-3321 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Age-related disease or disease-related age? Perspectives for paleopathological research
OBJECTIVE: The interconnection of biological aging and disease throughout the life course profoundly affects almost every aspect of paleopathological research but is rarely explored. This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for an informed research approach that explicitly acknowledges these complex interrelationships. METHODS: We discuss the existing concept of age-related disease and introduce the new concept of disease-related…
Applications of epidemiologic transition theory to modern infectious disease medicine and epidemiology
Potential theoretical and practical benefits of greater adoption of ETT include experimental therapies for infectious diseases and CIDs anchored in evolutionary medicine; policy and practical guidance for reducing youth and maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); better comprehension of both early life exposure to environmental microbes' role in differential vulnerability to CIDs and infectious diseases, and vaccine effica…
Ethical futures in biological anthropology
Although ethical reforms in biological anthropology have gained ground in recent years, there is still a scarcity of ethical standards for work involving historical documented collections (HDCs) at US museums and universities. These collections of deceased individuals were created in the late 19th to mid‐20th centuries under anatomy laws that targeted socially marginalized communities and allowed for the dissection of these individuals without th…
Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Portable Osteometric Device
Metric analysis of skeletal material is integral to the analysis and identification of human remains, though one commonly used measuring device, the osteometric board, has lagged in recent advancement. Traditional boards are bulky and require manual measurement recording, potentially generating intra- and interobserver error. To address these limitations, we tested the reliability, validity, and error rates of a novel device, the Portable Osteome…
Health-Related Caretaking in an Institutionalized Setting
Health-related caretaking was provided to individuals institutionalized in the Mississippi State Asylum (MSA), Jackson, MS (AD 1855–1935). However, because of limited associated documentary evidence on caretaking in the MSA and a general dearth of academic knowledge about caretaking in asylums in the Southern United States, information on caretaking and its efficacy in the MSA is limited. Accordingly, we apply a modified Bioarchaeology of Care (B…
Institutionalization within the Context of Pandemic Infectious Disease
Though vulnerability to pandemic infectious disease is primarily measured by biological risk of medical complications, social vulnerability is more potently mediated by social determinants of health, the intersection of these determinants, and social identity. Among other groups, these factors make people with disabilities (PWD), especially those in congregate settings (e.g., institutions), particularly socially vulnerable to pandemics. Despite t…
Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains
We synthesize how the tools of molecular anthropology, integrated with analyses of skeletal material, can provide direct insights into the context-specific experiences of racial structural violence in the past. Our work-which is emblematic of how biological anthropologists are increasingly interested in exploring the embodied effects of structural and race-based violence-reveals how anthropology can illuminate past lived experiences that are othe…
Applying the Index of Care to the Mississippian period
Bioarchaeologists and palaeopathologists have recently turned their attention towards one critical aspect of the study of the history of disease: health‐related caregiving. In response, an approach, the bioarchaeology of care, and, within it, the web‐based Index of Care (IoC) have been developed to enable the identification and interpretation of past caregiving. Here, we apply the IoC to Burial 86, a young adult (18–25 years) female from the late…
Reconsidering sex and gender in relation to health and disease in bioarchaeology
The "Poxed" and the "Pure
This research evaluates mortuary evidence from post-medieval burials (N = 823), including 5 with evidence of acquired syphilis, e.g., "the pox," from four London cemeteries to determine if the strong social stigma and community exclusion associated with this disease during life continued in death. Mortuary context of skeletons evidencing syphilis was assessed against those without, but no evidence of non-normative burial was detected. However, th…
More Harm than Healing? Investigating the Iatrogenic Effects of Mercury Treatment on Acquired Syphilis in Post-medieval London
Mercury was commonly used to treat syphilis in post-medieval Europe, but debate persists about whether it ameliorated infection or exacerbated it. As there are no in vitro studies on mercury’s effectiveness, Hg levels were characterized using an established technique, portable X-Ray Florescence Spectrometry (pXRF) in syphilitic skeletons (N=22) from six post-medieval London cemeteries. Levels were assessed against proxies for syphilitic infection…
Adapt or Die
Over the past several decades, the field of paleopathology has rapidly advanced, but a continuing delay in incorporating scientific advances and a lack of methodological rigor hinder its progress. Inconsistencies in the presentation of data, the persistent use of non-standardized criteria and non-specific skeletal lesions to diagnose diseases, and the misuse of or delay in adopting critical, relevant concepts and methods from other disciplines ob…
George J. Armelagos (1936–2014)
The evolution of disease
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…
Recovering the ‘Body Politic
Bioarchaeology is fraught with profound ethical quandaries, yet it has lagged behind the larger discipline of anthropology in the development of ethical principles and a professional code of ethics. Here, we propose an additional ethical justification for bioarchaeology based on relational ethics, theoretical work on embodiment, and the produced and constituted nature of human bodies, and on deriving meaning from skeletal remains: highly contextu…
Diet and death in times of war
The Science Behind Pre‐Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe
This article discusses the presentation of scientific findings by documentary, without the process of peer review. We use, as an example, PBS's “The Syphilis Enigma,” in which researchers presented novel evidence concerning the origin of syphilis that had never been reviewed by other scientists. These “findings” then entered the world of peer‐reviewed literature through citations of the documentary itself or material associated with it. Here, we …
Medicine and Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Reconsidering sex and gender in relation to health and disease in bioarchaeology
Recovering the ‘Body Politic
Bioarchaeology is fraught with profound ethical quandaries, yet it has lagged behind the larger discipline of anthropology in the development of ethical principles and a professional code of ethics. Here, we propose an additional ethical justification for bioarchaeology based on relational ethics, theoretical work on embodiment, and the produced and constituted nature of human bodies, and on deriving meaning from skeletal remains: highly contextu…
Diet and death in times of war
Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains
We synthesize how the tools of molecular anthropology, integrated with analyses of skeletal material, can provide direct insights into the context-specific experiences of racial structural violence in the past. Our work-which is emblematic of how biological anthropologists are increasingly interested in exploring the embodied effects of structural and race-based violence-reveals how anthropology can illuminate past lived experiences that are othe…
More Harm than Healing? Investigating the Iatrogenic Effects of Mercury Treatment on Acquired Syphilis in Post-medieval London
Mercury was commonly used to treat syphilis in post-medieval Europe, but debate persists about whether it ameliorated infection or exacerbated it. As there are no in vitro studies on mercury’s effectiveness, Hg levels were characterized using an established technique, portable X-Ray Florescence Spectrometry (pXRF) in syphilitic skeletons (N=22) from six post-medieval London cemeteries. Levels were assessed against proxies for syphilitic infection…
The "Poxed" and the "Pure
This research evaluates mortuary evidence from post-medieval burials (N = 823), including 5 with evidence of acquired syphilis, e.g., "the pox," from four London cemeteries to determine if the strong social stigma and community exclusion associated with this disease during life continued in death. Mortuary context of skeletons evidencing syphilis was assessed against those without, but no evidence of non-normative burial was detected. However, th…
Adapt or Die
Over the past several decades, the field of paleopathology has rapidly advanced, but a continuing delay in incorporating scientific advances and a lack of methodological rigor hinder its progress. Inconsistencies in the presentation of data, the persistent use of non-standardized criteria and non-specific skeletal lesions to diagnose diseases, and the misuse of or delay in adopting critical, relevant concepts and methods from other disciplines ob…
Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Portable Osteometric Device
Metric analysis of skeletal material is integral to the analysis and identification of human remains, though one commonly used measuring device, the osteometric board, has lagged in recent advancement. Traditional boards are bulky and require manual measurement recording, potentially generating intra- and interobserver error. To address these limitations, we tested the reliability, validity, and error rates of a novel device, the Portable Osteome…
The Science Behind Pre‐Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe
This article discusses the presentation of scientific findings by documentary, without the process of peer review. We use, as an example, PBS's “The Syphilis Enigma,” in which researchers presented novel evidence concerning the origin of syphilis that had never been reviewed by other scientists. These “findings” then entered the world of peer‐reviewed literature through citations of the documentary itself or material associated with it. Here, we …
Medicine and Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Diet and death in times of war
The Science Behind Pre‐Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe
This article discusses the presentation of scientific findings by documentary, without the process of peer review. We use, as an example, PBS's “The Syphilis Enigma,” in which researchers presented novel evidence concerning the origin of syphilis that had never been reviewed by other scientists. These “findings” then entered the world of peer‐reviewed literature through citations of the documentary itself or material associated with it. Here, we …
George J. Armelagos (1936–2014)
The evolution of disease
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…
Recovering the ‘Body Politic
Bioarchaeology is fraught with profound ethical quandaries, yet it has lagged behind the larger discipline of anthropology in the development of ethical principles and a professional code of ethics. Here, we propose an additional ethical justification for bioarchaeology based on relational ethics, theoretical work on embodiment, and the produced and constituted nature of human bodies, and on deriving meaning from skeletal remains: highly contextu…
More Harm than Healing? Investigating the Iatrogenic Effects of Mercury Treatment on Acquired Syphilis in Post-medieval London
Mercury was commonly used to treat syphilis in post-medieval Europe, but debate persists about whether it ameliorated infection or exacerbated it. As there are no in vitro studies on mercury’s effectiveness, Hg levels were characterized using an established technique, portable X-Ray Florescence Spectrometry (pXRF) in syphilitic skeletons (N=22) from six post-medieval London cemeteries. Levels were assessed against proxies for syphilitic infection…
Adapt or Die
Over the past several decades, the field of paleopathology has rapidly advanced, but a continuing delay in incorporating scientific advances and a lack of methodological rigor hinder its progress. Inconsistencies in the presentation of data, the persistent use of non-standardized criteria and non-specific skeletal lesions to diagnose diseases, and the misuse of or delay in adopting critical, relevant concepts and methods from other disciplines ob…
The "Poxed" and the "Pure
This research evaluates mortuary evidence from post-medieval burials (N = 823), including 5 with evidence of acquired syphilis, e.g., "the pox," from four London cemeteries to determine if the strong social stigma and community exclusion associated with this disease during life continued in death. Mortuary context of skeletons evidencing syphilis was assessed against those without, but no evidence of non-normative burial was detected. However, th…
Applying the Index of Care to the Mississippian period
Bioarchaeologists and palaeopathologists have recently turned their attention towards one critical aspect of the study of the history of disease: health‐related caregiving. In response, an approach, the bioarchaeology of care, and, within it, the web‐based Index of Care (IoC) have been developed to enable the identification and interpretation of past caregiving. Here, we apply the IoC to Burial 86, a young adult (18–25 years) female from the late…
Reconsidering sex and gender in relation to health and disease in bioarchaeology
Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains
We synthesize how the tools of molecular anthropology, integrated with analyses of skeletal material, can provide direct insights into the context-specific experiences of racial structural violence in the past. Our work-which is emblematic of how biological anthropologists are increasingly interested in exploring the embodied effects of structural and race-based violence-reveals how anthropology can illuminate past lived experiences that are othe…
Institutionalization within the Context of Pandemic Infectious Disease
Though vulnerability to pandemic infectious disease is primarily measured by biological risk of medical complications, social vulnerability is more potently mediated by social determinants of health, the intersection of these determinants, and social identity. Among other groups, these factors make people with disabilities (PWD), especially those in congregate settings (e.g., institutions), particularly socially vulnerable to pandemics. Despite t…
Health-Related Caretaking in an Institutionalized Setting
Health-related caretaking was provided to individuals institutionalized in the Mississippi State Asylum (MSA), Jackson, MS (AD 1855–1935). However, because of limited associated documentary evidence on caretaking in the MSA and a general dearth of academic knowledge about caretaking in asylums in the Southern United States, information on caretaking and its efficacy in the MSA is limited. Accordingly, we apply a modified Bioarchaeology of Care (B…
Ethical futures in biological anthropology
Although ethical reforms in biological anthropology have gained ground in recent years, there is still a scarcity of ethical standards for work involving historical documented collections (HDCs) at US museums and universities. These collections of deceased individuals were created in the late 19th to mid‐20th centuries under anatomy laws that targeted socially marginalized communities and allowed for the dissection of these individuals without th…
Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Portable Osteometric Device
Metric analysis of skeletal material is integral to the analysis and identification of human remains, though one commonly used measuring device, the osteometric board, has lagged in recent advancement. Traditional boards are bulky and require manual measurement recording, potentially generating intra- and interobserver error. To address these limitations, we tested the reliability, validity, and error rates of a novel device, the Portable Osteome…
Age-related disease or disease-related age? Perspectives for paleopathological research
OBJECTIVE: The interconnection of biological aging and disease throughout the life course profoundly affects almost every aspect of paleopathological research but is rarely explored. This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for an informed research approach that explicitly acknowledges these complex interrelationships. METHODS: We discuss the existing concept of age-related disease and introduce the new concept of disease-related…
Applications of epidemiologic transition theory to modern infectious disease medicine and epidemiology
Potential theoretical and practical benefits of greater adoption of ETT include experimental therapies for infectious diseases and CIDs anchored in evolutionary medicine; policy and practical guidance for reducing youth and maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); better comprehension of both early life exposure to environmental microbes' role in differential vulnerability to CIDs and infectious diseases, and vaccine effica…
Sociology (11 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 obras) · Anthropology (8 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Race, Genetics, and Society (6 obras) · Bioarchaeology (5 obras)