All Publications

Journals

• Mitchell PD; Millard AR. (Nov 2009). Migration to the medieval Middle East with the crusades. Am J Phys Anthropol. 140:518-525. DOI.
• Mitchell PD; Redfern RC. (Dec 2007). The Prevalence of Dislocation in Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Britain Over the Past Thousand Years. J PEDIATR ORTHOPED. 27:890-892. DOI.
• Mitchell PD; Stem E; Tepper Y. (Jul 2008). Dysentery in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: an ELISA analysis of two medieval latrines in the City of Acre (Israel). J ARCHAEOL SCI. 35:1849-1853. DOI.
• Mitchell PD. (Mar 2008). Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition (medieval history and archaeology). INT J OSTEOARCHAEOL. 18:215-216. DOI.
• Alrawi MF; Khalil NM; Mitchell PD; Hughes SP. (2007). The value of neurophysiological and imaging studies in predicting outcome in the surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy. European Spine Journal. 16:495-500.
• Mitchell PD; Tisdall M; Zadeh H. (2004). Selective botulinum toxin injection in the treatment of recurrent deformity following surgical correction of clubfoot. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica. 16:630-633.
• Mitchell PD; Chew NS; Goutos I; Healy JC; Lee JC; Evans S; Hulme A. (2007). Post reduction MRI as a predictor of long term acetabular dysplasia in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). J Bone Joint Surg [Br]. 89:948-952.
• Mitchell PD; Hunt D; Lyall H; Nolan M; Tudor-Williams G. (2007). Panton-Valentine Leukocidin secreting Staphylococcus aureus causing severe musculoskeletal sepsis in children: a new threat. J Bone Joint Surg [Br]. 89:1239-1242.
• Mitchell PD; Tepper Y. Intestinal parasitic worm eggs from a crusader period cesspool in the city of Acre (Israel). Levant. 39:91-95.
• Mitchell PD; Redfern RC. (Jan 2008). Diagnostic criteria for developmental dislocation of the hip in human skeletal remains. INT J OSTEOARCHAEOL. 18:61-71. DOI.
• Bailey, J; Mitchell, PD. (2007). A case for Sherlock Holmes: murder or suicide in a gunshot wound from Victorian London?. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 17:100-104.
• Mitchell PD. (2006). Child health in the crusader period inhabitants of Tel Jezreel, Israel. Levant. 38:37-44.
• Mitchell PD. (2004). The palaeopathology of skulls recovered from a medieval cave cemetary at Safed, Israel (thirteenth to seventeenth century). Levant. 36:243-250.
• Mitchell, PD. (2000). The evolution of social attitudes to the medical care of those with leprosy within the Crusader States. Cahiers du GRHIS (Rouen). 11:21-28.
• Mitchell PD. (1997). Further evidence of disease in the Crusader Period population of Le Petit Gerin (Tel Jezreel, Israel). Tel Aviv. 1, 24:169-179.
• Zias J; Mitchell PD. (1996). Psoriatic arthritis in a fifth century Judean Desert monastery. American journal of Physical Anthropology. 101:491-502.
• Mitchell PD. (1994). Pathology in the Crusader Period: human skeletal remains from Tel Jezreel. Levant. 26:67-71.
• Mitchell PD. (Nov 2006). Trauma in the Crusader period city of Caesarea: A major port in the medieval eastern Mediterranean. INT J OSTEOARCHAEOL. 16:493-505. DOI.
• Maslen MW; Mitchell PD. (Apr 2006). Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion. J R Soc Med. 99:185-188. DOI.
• Mitchell PD; Nagar Y; Ellenblum R. (Mar 2006). Weapon injuries in the 12th century Crusader garrison of Vadum Iacob Castle, Galilee. INT J OSTEOARCHAEOL. 16:145-155. DOI.
• Mitchell PD. (Jun 2003). Pre-Columbian treponemal disease from 14th century AD Safed, Israel, and implications for the medieval eastern Mediterranean. Am J Phys Anthropol. 121:117-124. DOI.
• Koelewijn LF; Meima A; Broekhuis SM; Richardus JH; Mitchell PD; Benbow C; Saunderson PR. (Mar 2003). Sensory testing in leprosy: comparison of ballpoint pen and monofilaments. Lepr Rev. 74:42-52.
• Mitchell PD. (Jun 2001). The threshold for protective sensation that prevents neuropathic ulceration on the plantar aspect of the foot: a study of leprosy patients in a rural community in India. Lepr Rev. 72:143-150.
• Mitchell PD; Mitchell TN. (Jun 2000). The age-dependent deterioration in light touch sensation on the plantar aspect of the foot in a rural community in India: implications when screening for sensory impairment. Lepr Rev. 71:169-178.
• Mitchell PD. (Jun 1993). Leprosy and the case of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem: mycobacterial disease in the crusader states of the 12th and 13th centuries. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 61:283-291.

Books

• Mitchell PD. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon. Cambridge University Press (2004).

Chapters in books

• Mitchell PD. Challenges in the study of health and disease in the crusaders. In Faces from the Past: Diachronic Patterns in the Biology and Health Status of Human Populations of the Eastern Mediterranean. 205-212. Faerman (ed); M (ed); Horwitz (ed); LK (ed); Kahana (ed); T (ed); Zilberman (ed); U (ed). Archaeopress, Oxford (2007).
• Mitchell PD. Contrasts in the standard of health in different communities in the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem. In The Military Orders: volume 4. On Land and On Sea. 23-28. Upton-Ward J (ed). Ashgate, Aldershot (2008).
• Mitchell, PD. Challenges in the study of health and disease in the crusaders. In Faces from the Past: Diachronic Patterns in the Biology and Health Status of Human Populations of the Eastern Mediterranean. 205-212. Faerman M (ed); Horwitz LK (ed); Kahana T (ed); Zilberman U (ed). Archaeopress, Oxford (2007).
• Mitchell PD. The torture of military captives during the crusades to the medieval Middle East. In Noble ideals and bloody realities: warfare in the Middle Ages, 378-1492. 97-118. Christie N (ed); Yazigi M (ed). EJ Brill, Leiden (2006).
• Mitchell PD. Disease. In Encyclopedia of the Crusades. 2:358-360. Murray AV (ed). ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara (2006).
• Mitchell PD. The infirmaries of the Order of the Temple in the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem. In The medieval hospital and medical practice: bridging the evidence. 225-234. Bowers B (ed). Ashgate, Aldershot (2006).
• Mitchell PD. Evidence for elective surgery in the Frankish states of the near east in the crusader period (12th-13th centuries). In Gesundheit-Krankheit: Kulturtransder Medizinischen Wissens von der Spätantike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit. 121-138. Jankrift KP (ed); Steger F (ed). Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne (2004).
• Mitchell PD. The myth of the spread of leprosy with the crusades. In The Past and Present of Leprosy. 175-181. Roberts C (ed); Manchester K (ed); Lewis M (ed). Archaeopress, Oxford (2002).
• Mitchell PD; Stern E. Parasitic intestinal helminth ova from the latrines of the 13th century crusader hospital of St John in Acre, Israel. In Proceedings of the XIIIth European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Chieti, Itali. 207-213. Verghetta ML (ed); Capasso L (ed). Edigrafital S.p.A., Teramo (2001).
• Mitchell PD. An evaluation of the leprosy of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem in the context of the mediaeval world. In The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. 245-258. Hamilton B (ed). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000).
• Mitchell PD. Warfare injuries. In Encyclopedia of the Crusades. 4:1254-1255. Murray AV (ed). ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara (2006).
• Mitchell PD. Tuberculosis in the crusades. In Tuberculosis: Past and Present. 43-49. Palfi G (ed); Dutour O (ed); Deak J (ed); Hutas I (ed). Golden Book-TB Foundation, Budapest-Szeged (1999).
• Mitchell PD. The archaeological approach to the study of disease in the Crusader States, as employed at Le Petit Gérin. In The Miliary Orders. 2. Welfare and Warfare:43-50. Nicholson H (ed). Ashgate, Aldershot (1998).

Conferences

• Mitchell PD; Millard AR. Migration from medieval Europe to the Middle East with the crusades. 77th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists, 9 Apr 2008 - 12 Apr 2008. 156-156. WILEY-LISS.
• Mitchell PD. The integration of the palaeopathology and medical history of the Crusades. XII European Memebers Meeting of the Paleopathology-Association, 26 Aug 1998 - 29 Aug 1998. 9:333-343. JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD (Sep 1999).