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Klappentext This book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in early modern England. Using a wide range of sources for the southeast of England! the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries of time. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations! and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived! understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers! poxes and plagues in past times. Zusammenfassung This 1997 book provides a geographical! demographic and epidemiological study of disease and mortality in early modern England. Using a wide range of sources! the author examines the dramatic variations in death rates and disease patterns across the English countryside! and in so doing gives the first detailed account of the history of malaria in England. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Landscapes of the Past: 1. Airs, waters and places; 2. Regional and local settings; Part II. Contours of Mortality: 3. Geographical patterns of mortality; 4. Geographical rhythms of mortality; Part III. Environments and Movements of Disease: 5. The spectrum of death, disease and medical care; 6. Marshlands, mosquitoes and malaria; 7. Crises, fevers and poxes; Part IV. Contours of Death: Contours of Health: 8. The epidemiological landscapes of the past; Bibliography.
