Changing Body - Health, Nutrition, Human Development in Western World Since 1700

Informationen zum Autor Sir Roderick Floud is Provost of Gresham College, London. He is editor of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and has published many books on British economic history including Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 (with Kenneth Wachter and Annabel Gregory, Cambridge University Press, 1990). He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau for Economic Research, and has received a knighthood for services to higher education. Klappentext This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history. Zusammenfassung It is only recently that the changing size! shape and capability of the human body has been linked to economic and demographic change. This groundbreaking book provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history! surveying the economic causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality! diet and the disease environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Our changing bodies: 300 years of technophysio evolution; 2. Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data; 3. The analysis of long-term trends in nutritional status, mortality, and economic growth; 4. Technophysio evolution and human health in England and Wales since 1700; 5. Height, health, and mortality in continental Europe, 1700-2100; 6. The American experience of technophysio evolution; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Roderick Floud, Roderick (Provost) Floud, Roderick (Provost) Fogel Floud, Roderick Fogel Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Robert W. (University of Chicago) Fogel, Robert William Fogel, Bernard Harris, Bernard (University of Southampton) Harris, Sok Chul (Sogang University Hong
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521705615
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70561-5
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 227 mm x 21 mm
• Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History; New Approaches to Economic and; New Approaches to Economic and Social History; New Approaches to Economic and
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics