Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 Why We Need to Know About Sanitation in the Past -- 2 Assessing the Impact of Sanitation upon Health in Early Human Populations from Hunter-gatherers to Ancient Civilisations, Using Theoretical Modelling -- 3 Waste Management in Early Urban Southern Mesopotamia -- 4 Latrines and Wastewater Sanitation Technologies in Ancient Greece -- 5 A Tale of Two Cities: The Efficacy of Ancient and Medieval Sanitation Methods -- 6 Sewers, Cesspits and Middens: A Survey of the Evidence for 2000 Years of Waste Disposal in York, UK -- 7 Human Intestinal Parasites and Dysentery in Africa and the Middle East Prior to 1500 -- 8 Parasitism, Cesspits and Sanitation in East Asian Countries Prior to Modernisation -- 9 New World Paleoparasitology -- 10 Parasites in European Populations from Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution -- 11 A First Attempt to Retrace the History of Dysentery Caused by Entamoeba histolytica -- 12 A Better Understanding of Sanitation and Health in the Past -- Bibliography -- Index.