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Height, Health and History - Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980

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Klappentext Height! Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself. Zusammenfassung In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives! nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly! it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the gap in living standards! morbidity and mortality between rich and poor. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Height, nutritional status and the historical record; 2. Inference from military height data; 3. Inference from samples of military records; 4. Long-term trends in nutritional status; 5. Regional and occupational differentials in British heights; 6. Height, nutritional status and the environment; 7. Nutritional status and physical growth in Britain, 1750-1980; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Authors Roderick Floud, Roderick (Provost) Wachter Floud, Roderick Gregory Floud, Annabel Gregory, Kenneth Wachter
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.11.2006
 
EAN 9780521029988
ISBN 978-0-521-02998-8
No. of pages 380
Series Cambridge Studies in Populatio
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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