Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
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Márk László
associate professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 22 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 22 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OSF-PCS-T
- 2 kredit
- Dentistry
- Optional modul
- spring
-
Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 50
Topic
The course gives an overall review about the observable pathological alterations of the human remains with their diagnostic possibilities as well as their interpretation.
Topics:
Chemical composition of human bone tissue.
Sex determination techniques.
Life determination.
Congenital alterations.
Traumatic morphology.
Trepanations.
Mycobacterial infections.
Tuberculosis.
Lepra
Syphilis.
The Pest.
Bone tumors, osteocarcinoma.
Joint diseases.
Oral paleopathology.
Molecular biomarker discovery.
Evolution of human pathogenes.
Evolution of Mycobacterium.
Lectures
- 1. Introduction - Márk László
- 2. The paleopathology, an interdisciplinary science - Márk László
- 3. Chemical composition and biochemistry of the bone tissue - Márk László
- 4. Chemical composition and biochemistry of the bone tissue - Márk László
- 5. Sex determination techniques - Márk László
- 6. Lifetime determination - Márk László
- 7. Congenital alterations. Trauma - Márk László
- 8. Trepanations - Márk László
- 9. Tuberculosis - Márk László
- 10. Tuberculosis - Márk László
- 11. Lepra - Márk László
- 12. Lepra - Márk László
- 13. Syphilis - Márk László
- 14. Syphilis - Márk László
- 15. The Pest - Márk László
- 16. The Pest - Márk László
- 17. Osteo-necrotic alterations, dystrophies - Márk László
- 18. Osteocarcinoma, bone tumors - Márk László
- 19. Joint diseases - Márk László
- 20. Oral paleopathology - Márk László
- 21. Determination of molecular biomarkers - Márk László
- 22. Paleoproteomics. Evolution of the human pathogenes - Márk László
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Lecture slides and notes.
Notes
Recommended literature
A.C. Aufderheide: Cambrige Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology, 1998
Human Paleopathology Eds. Ortner, Aufderheide. 2001.
Palfi et al: Tuberculosis Past and Present, 1999
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
Written exam. Max. absences: 20%.
Mid-term exams
Not possible
Making up for missed classes
Not possible.
Exam topics/questions
Chemical composition of human bone tissue.
Sex determination techniques.
Life determination.
Congenital alterations.
Traumatic morphology.
Trepanations.
Mycobacterial infections.
Tuberculosis.
Lepra.
Syphilis.
The Pest.
Bone tumors, osteocarcinoma.
Joint diseases.
Oral paleopathology.
Molecular biomarker discovery.
Evolution of human pathogenes.
Evolution of Mycobacterium.