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Tony Waldron
Died2021 (2022)
Occupation(s)Physician and bioarchaeologist
Known for
  • Palaeoepidemiology (2007)
  • Palaeopathology (2009)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Birmingham
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Tony Waldron (died January 2021) was a British physician and bioarchaeologist specialising in occupational medicine, palaeopathology, and palaeoepidemiology. He was an honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, a lecturer in occupational medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a consultant physician at University College Hospital and St Mary's Hospital.[1] He wrote a number of books on bioarchaeology, including the widely used textbooks Palaeoepidemiology (2007) and Palaeopathology (2009).

Career

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Waldron studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and also had degrees in history and law.[2] He was a lecturer in social medicine at Birmingham until 1978 and a senior lecturer in occupational medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 1978 to 1988.[1] He was appointed an honorary research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London in 1980, and was an honorary professor there from 2004 until his death.[1] He also held visiting professor positions at Linköping University, Uppsala University, the Shiga University of Medical Science, and Kyoto University.[1]

As a physician, Waldron worked as a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College Hospital (1980–1988), and St Mary's Hospital (1988–2008).[1][2] In letters to The Guardian and The Times, he criticised the management of the National Health Service (NHS) for disregarding the occupational health of hospital workers,[3] and the government for appointing non-experts to leadership roles,[4] and ultimately left the NHS "after a reform too far".[2]

Waldron was a founding editor of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and the editor of the British Journal of Industrial Medicine from 1980 to 1993.[1] He won a Visiting Professor Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in 1983.[1]

Bioarchaeology

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Waldron was an expert on palaeopathology and palaeoepidemiology, which he taught at the UCL Institute of Archaeology from 1980 to 2020.[1] He wrote several books on the subject, including Counting the Dead: Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations (1994),[5][6] A Field Guide to Joint Disease in Archaeology (1995, with Juliet Rogers),[7][8][9] Shadows in the Soil: Human Bones and Archaeology (2001), Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past (2007),[10][11][12][13] and Palaeopathology (2009, part of the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology series).[14][15][16][17] He was particularly interested in the history of joint disease, malignant disease, and infectious disease, and in the years before his death was studying congenital syphilis and the traces it leaves on skeletons.[1] He studied the human remains from a number of archaeological sites in London, including West Tenter Street, Merton Priory, the East Smithfield Black Death cemetery and former abbey of St Mary Graces, St. Bride's Lower Cemetery, and the crypt at Christ Church, Spitalfields.[1]

He also wrote several papers on the history of palaeopathology, including biographies of Roy Lee Moodie[18] and Calvin Wells.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Dullaghan, Jo (21 January 2021). "Tony Waldron". Institute of Archaeology. University College London. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Cole, Garrard; Kingham, Emilia; Waldron, Tony (2019). "Printing pathology: a case study in presenting pathological human skeletal remains for education and display". Journal of the Institute of Conservation. 42 (1): 18–33. doi:10.1080/19455224.2018.1550431. ISSN 1945-5224.
  3. ^ Waldron, Tony (4 July 2001). "Readers' letters". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Waldron, Tony (17 April 2009). "The real NHS experts". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460.
  5. ^ Manchester, Keith (1995). "Tony Waldron, Counting the dead: the epidemiology of skeletal populations, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, pp. xiv, 109, £12.95 (paperback 0-471-95138-2)". Medical History. 39 (4): 507. doi:10.1017/S0025727300060476. ISSN 2048-8343.
  6. ^ Konigsberg, Lyle W. (1996). "Review of Counting the Dead: The Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations". Human Biology. 68 (3): 479–481. ISSN 0018-7143. JSTOR 41465491.
  7. ^ Antón, Susan C.; Warren, Michael W. (1996). "Book Review: A field guide to joint disease in archaeology. By Juliet Rogers and Tony Waldron". American Journal of Human Biology. 8 (3): 409–410. doi:10.1002/ajhb.1310080303. ISSN 1520-6300.
  8. ^ Bridges, Patricia S. (1996). "Book review: A Field Guide to Joint Disease in Archaeology". American Antiquity. 61 (3): 630. doi:10.2307/281866. ISSN 0002-7316. JSTOR 281866. S2CID 164723919.
  9. ^ Revell, Peter (1 February 1996). "Book review: A field guide to joint disease in archaeology". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 55 (2): 88. doi:10.1136/ard.55.2.88. ISSN 0003-4967. PMC 1010099.
  10. ^ Hickok, Andrew W. (2009). "Review of Paleoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past". Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 33 (1): 140–142. ISSN 0705-2006. JSTOR 41103650.
  11. ^ Gowland, Rebecca (2010). "Tony Waldron, Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past, Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, 2007, pp. 148, £27.99 (hardback 978-1-59874-252-7)". Medical History. 54 (3): 407–408. doi:10.1017/S0025727300004750. ISSN 2048-8343. S2CID 227103046.
  12. ^ Rennie, Claire Marie (2010). "Book review: Palaeoepidemiology. The Measure of Disease in the Human Past" (PDF). PaleoAnthropology. 2010: 226–227. doi:10.4207/pa.2010.rev97. ISSN 1545-0031.
  13. ^ DeWitte, Sharon N. (2011). "Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past by Tony Waldron". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 25 (1): 127–128. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01142.x. ISSN 1548-1387.
  14. ^ Lewis, Mary (2010). "Book Review of Palaeopathology, by Tony Waldron". American Journal of Archaeology. 114 (2). doi:10.3764/ajaonline1142.Lewis.
  15. ^ Armelagos, George (2010). "New biological books: Palaeopathology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. By Tony Waldron". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85 (2): 215. doi:10.1086/652322. ISSN 0033-5770. S2CID 225069322.
  16. ^ Miller, Elizabeth (2010). "Book review: Palaeopathology. By Tony Waldron". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 142 (4): 674–675. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21295. ISSN 1096-8644.
  17. ^ Timm, Mary Beth (2010). "Book review: Palaeopathology" (PDF). PaleoAnthropology. 2010: 218–220. doi:10.4207/pa.2010.rev94. ISSN 1545-0031.
  18. ^ Waldron, Tony (2015). "Roy Lee Moodie (1880–1934) and the beginnings of palaeopathology". Journal of Medical Biography. 23 (1): 8–13. doi:10.1177/0967772013479544. ISSN 0967-7720. PMC 4509874. PMID 24585585.
  19. ^ Waldron, Tony (2013). "Crooked Timber: The life of Calvin Wells (1908–1978)". Journal of Medical Biography. 22 (2): 82–89. doi:10.1177/0967772013479734. PMC 4107771. PMID 24585588.
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