Durante los días 16 y 17 de agosto se dictará el Curso “Metabolic Diseases in Palaeopathology: How to Use Recent Developments in Your Research, and Utilise Resources Offered by the Newly Launched Digitized Diseases Website”, a cargo de las Dras. Megan Brickley (McMaster University, Canada) y Jo Buckberry (Bradford University, Reino Unido). El curso se llevará a cabo en el Club Argentino de Jardinería, ubicado en la calle Defensa 665 2° B, en el barrio de San Telmo, y será dictado en idioma inglés, sin traducción simultánea. El costo será de $350 (U$35) para inscriptos al meeting y $400 (US40) para no inscriptos.

              Rogamos a todos los interesados notificar su interés con anticipación, dado que el cupo máximo es de 30 asistentes.



Programa del Curso (Carga Horaria: 18 horas)


Day 1. 16th August
09.00-09.30 Introduction: Workshop content and the Digitised Disease resource
09.30-10.30Rickets: Juvenile cases of vitamin D deficiency
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-12.00Osteomalacia: Adult vitamin D deficiency & co-occurrence of infectious disease
12.00-12.30Detecting previous episodes of vitamin D deficiency (healed episodes)
Questions…

12.30-14.00Lunch

14.00-15.00Juvenile scurvy
15.00-15.30Break
15.00-16.00Adult scurvy
16.00-16.45Co-occurrence of rickets and scurvy
Questions…

Day 2. 17th August
09.00-10.30Bone development (or lack of) and age-related bone loss.
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-11.30 Osteoporosis
11.30-12.30 Other metabolic bone diseases: Paget’s disease of bone and gout
12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00Anaemia? - cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis
15.00-15.30Discussion and concluding remarks

“Metabolic Diseases in Palaeopathology: How to Use Recent Developments in Your Research, and Utilise Resources Offered by the Newly Launched Digitised Diseases Website”

Dra. Megan Brickley (McMaster University, Canada) y Dra. Jo Buckberry (Bradford University, Reino Unido)