Health and disease in human history : a journal of interdisciplinary history reader / edited by Robert I. Rotberg.


Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
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Part of the series Journal of interdisciplinary history readers;Journal of interdisciplinary history readers.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • 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.

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