The Workshop “Metabolic Diseases in Palaeopathology: How to Use Recent Developments in Your Research, and Utilise Resources Offered by the Newly Launched Digitised Diseases Website” will be dictated on August 16 - 17 August by PhD. Megan Brickley (McMaster University, Canada) and Jo Buckberry (Bradford University, United Kingdom). It will be held in the Club Argentino de Jardinería, Defensa Street 665 2° B, San Telmo, in English and without translation. The cost of the workshop is $350 (U$35) for those who attend the meeting and $400 (US40) for not inscribed scholars.

              If you are interested in attending the workshop, please send us your confirmation as soon as possible. Limited vacancies: 30 assistants.



Program (18 hours)


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”

Dr. Megan Brickley (McMaster University, Canada) and Dr. Jo Buckberry (Bradford University, UK)