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The changing body : health, nutrition, and human development in the western world since 1700 / Roderick Floud ... [and others]
LIBRA GN51 .C45 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
- New approaches to economic and social history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropometry--Western countries.
- Anthropometry.
- Health--History.
- Health.
- Nutrition--Europe--History.
- Nutrition.
- Nutrition--United States--History.
- Human beings--Europe--History.
- Human beings.
- Human beings--United States--History.
- Mortality--trends.
- Mortality--history.
- Life Expectancy--trends.
- Life Expectancy--history.
- Nutrition Surveys.
- History.
- United States.
- Europe.
- Western countries.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mortality--trends.
- Mortality--history.
- Life Expectancy--trends.
- Life Expectancy--history.
- Nutrition Surveys.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Our changing bodies: 300 years of technophysio evolution
- Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data
- The analysis of long-term trends in nutritional status, mortality, and economic growth
- Technophysio evolution and human health in England and Wales since 1700
- Height, health, and mortality in continental Europe, 1700-2100
- The American experience of technophysio evolution
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521705615
- 0521705614
- 0521879752
- 9780521879750
- OCLC:
- 699768911
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