Rachel Ives PhD, lets us know about her inspiration for her latest publication, co-authored by Dr. Megan Brickley. Rachel has completed extensive research as a student and research osteologist at the University of Birmingham and has a long standing fascination with developing techniques of analysing MBDs such as osteoporosis and rickets...

..."The inspiration for the book derived from our passion for the group of metabolic bone diseases. These conditions can provide a fascinating insight into varied aspects of life such as diet, living conditions or the environment, as well as showing trends in disease onset related to age, sex and ethnicity. We wanted to provide a useful resource that would pull together recent clinical understanding of these conditions together with the various advances that have been made in the skeletal recognition from past populations. The manner in which many of the metabolic conditions can contribute to our understanding of life and health is extremely broad. An improved awareness of the presence of these conditions will improve our reconstructions of life and health across diverse past populations."

Rachel now puts the theory into practice on a daily basis working as the Human Osteoarchaeologist for AOC Archaeology Unit, London.

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