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

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