1 Introduction to the study of metabolic bone diseases

The first chapter provides an introduction to The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition, setting out the conditions covered: scurvy, rickets and osteomalacia, age-related-bone loss and osteoporosis, secondary osteoporosis, Paget’s disease of bone, anaemia, and approaches to recognising disease co-occurrence; conditions in the metabolic syndrome and pellagra are considered alongside widely evaluated metabolic bone diseases. …