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Health and disease in human history a journal of interdisciplinary history reader

Robert I Rotberg

Available at FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária ACERVO DELFIM NETTO (A33.20.23 )(GetIt)

Title:
Health and disease in human history a journal of interdisciplinary history reader
Author: Robert I Rotberg
Subjects: Diseases and history; Epidemiology -- history; History of Medicine; Public Health -- history; Social Problems -- history; Maladies et histoire; SAÚDE PÚBLICA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Description: Morbidity and mortality in human history: the struggle to survive -- Nutrition and disease: the case of London, 1550-1750 -- Diagnosis, death, and diet: the case of London, 1750-1909 -- Mortality in Victorian England: models and patterns -- Height, nutrition, and mortality risk reconsidered -- Fertility, nutrition, and pellagra: Italy during the vital revolution -- Urban sanitation in preindustrial Japan -- Spanish and Nahuatl views on smallpox and demographic catastrophe in Mexico -- Out of Africa: the slave trade and the transmission of smallpox to Brazil, 1560-1831 -- Deficiency diseases in the Caribbean -- Mortality and family in the Colonial Chesapeake -- African mortality in the suppression of the slave trade: the case of bight of Biafra -- Social context of child mortality in the American Southwest -- Kinship and Migration: the making of an Oregon isolate community
Related Titles: Series:Journal of interdisciplinary history readers
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass MIT Press
Creation Date: 2000
Format: 345 p ill., maps 23 cm.
Language: English

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