TY - JOUR
T1 - Interpreting injury recidivism in a rural post-medieval male individual from Bucelas, Portugal
AU - Antunes-Ferreira, Nathalie
AU - Prates, Carlos
AU - Curate, Francisco
N1 - UIDB/04038/2020
UIDP/04038/2020
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Injury recidivism studies assess the lived experience of individuals who endure multiple traumatic incidents, conveying a nuanced contextualization of individual suffering within a reticulate of social and cultural processes. During a recent archaeological excavation, a skeleton of a middle-aged male dating to the 17th–18th centuries AD was excavated in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Bucelas (Portugal). This individual exhibited a mixture of healed and healing fractures that prompted poor functional long-term outcomes and an increase in the risk of death. Macroscopic and medical imaging (computerized tomography) analyses revealed lesions in the right shoulder, right and left ribs, fifth right proximal phalanx and right distal femur. Fracture complications include myositis ossificans and chronic osteomyelitis. The results are interpreted in the broader sociocultural circumstances of Bucelas during the early modern period, in order to investigate the causes of this individual's accumulated trauma and the possibility of health-related care associated with it.
AB - Injury recidivism studies assess the lived experience of individuals who endure multiple traumatic incidents, conveying a nuanced contextualization of individual suffering within a reticulate of social and cultural processes. During a recent archaeological excavation, a skeleton of a middle-aged male dating to the 17th–18th centuries AD was excavated in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Bucelas (Portugal). This individual exhibited a mixture of healed and healing fractures that prompted poor functional long-term outcomes and an increase in the risk of death. Macroscopic and medical imaging (computerized tomography) analyses revealed lesions in the right shoulder, right and left ribs, fifth right proximal phalanx and right distal femur. Fracture complications include myositis ossificans and chronic osteomyelitis. The results are interpreted in the broader sociocultural circumstances of Bucelas during the early modern period, in order to investigate the causes of this individual's accumulated trauma and the possibility of health-related care associated with it.
KW - care
KW - fractures
KW - injury recidivism
KW - myositis ossificans
KW - osteomyelitis
KW - palaeopathology
KW - post-medieval
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U2 - 10.1002/oa.2943
DO - 10.1002/oa.2943
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097535409
SN - 1047-482X
VL - 31
SP - 243
EP - 251
JO - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
JF - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
ER -