My Patients Were Mummies

My Patients Were Mummies

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My Patients Were Mummies

My Patients Were Mummies

Written by Michael R Zimmerman

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Michael R Zimmerman, MD, Ph.D. is an anthropologist and retired pathologist. He obtained his medical degree and training in pathology from New York University as well as a degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has combined a full career in academic medicine with research in paleopathology, the study of diseases found through the examination of mummies and ancient skeletal human and prehuman remains. Recognised as one of the worlds experts in this field, he is currently Adjunct Professor of Biology at Villanova University, Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Visiting Professor in the UK at the University of Manchesters KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. He teaches courses in paleopathology, history of disease, medical anthropology and forensic anthropology. His studies have involved working with three archeologic expeditions in Egypt, where he examined mummies in the area of Luxor and the Dakhleh Oasis in the Western Desert. He has also examined a number of frozen mummies in Alaska as well as mummies from the Penn Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum. He has served as a consultant on the find of the Iceman, for the National Archives and Records Administration Special Access and Freedom of Information Act Unit, College Park, MD, President John F Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, and the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, Office of Polar Programs. He has been invited to lectures at many museums, among them the British Museum, the Manchester Museum, Penn Museum, the University of Zurichs Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman. His recent publications include: Cancer: A New Disease, an Old Disease, or Something in Between? in Nature Reviews Cancer; Studying Mummies: Giving Life to a Dry Subject, in Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia: A Century in Review; and PUM I Revisited: Tradeoffs in Preservation and Discovery, in The Anatomical Record. My Patients Were Mummies follows the many adventures of a career that took him to exotic parts of the world and has contributed to our understanding of the role that the evolution of diseases has had in human biological and cultural history.
ISBN-13
9781536118513
Publication date
1 June 2017
Format
Hardback
Pages
240
Dimensions
230 x 155 mm
Language
English

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