STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal, International Journal of Paleopathology, the official journal of the Paleopathology Association.
Published quarterly, the first issue of the journal is now freely available to view online on SciVerse ScienceDirect. Print copies of the first issue will be available at the 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies on June 12-16, 2011 in San Diego, USA, where Elsevier will host a reception to officially launch the journal.
The International Journal of Paleopathology will publish original and significant articles on human and animal (including hominids) disease. The articles are based on the study of physical remains, including osseous, dental, and preserved soft tissues at a range of methodological levels, from direct observation to molecular, chemical, histological and radiographic analysis. Discussion of ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health, disease and life histories in the past is central to the discipline.
Papers dealing with historical evidence relating to disease in the past - rather than with history of medicine - will also be published. The journal will also accept significant studies that apply previously developed techniques to new materials, setting the research in the context of current debates on past human and animal health. Paper types encouraged are original research articles, case studies, technical notes, brief communications, book reviews and invited commentaries.
The first issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology is now freely available to view online on SciVerse ScienceDirect.
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