Talk:Osteology

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[edit] Osteology vs Osteopathy

Can someone add info to this article discriminating the two, and how Osteological Allopathy relates to Osteopathy? Rather confusing. Tyciol 12:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

As I understood it, osteology was the study of bones. Osteopathy is the art of treating disease by skeletal manipulation. Something entirely different, and I would argue not the subject of this article. An osteologist is not an osteopath. I have studied osteology and archaeozoology, the bones of humans and animals in archaeological contexts, but I would not claim to be an osteopath. Silverthorn 16:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I can't believe

I can't believe that people actually study bones for a living!

I would.

[edit] Expanding and Improving

I have attempted to expand and improve upon the brief description that already existed in order to make it more of an article and less of a stub. So far this has included giving some idea of the type of things that go in a typical osteological report and the sort of topics that research can be involved in. However, I think this article still has room for improvement. Suggestions for things that could be included in my opinion are:

• history of the discipline
• key workers in the field

As well as expansion of already existing areas. Silverthorn 13:03, 6 September 2006 (UTC)