Contours of death and disease in early modern England / Mary J. Dobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobson, Mary J., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 29.

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases--England, South East--History--17th century.

Diseases.

Diseases--England, South East--History--18th century.

Mortality--England, South East--History--17th century.

Mortality.

Mortality--England, South East--History--18th century.

Diseases--England, South East--Statistics.

Mortality--England, South East--Statistics.

Medical geography--England, South East.

Medical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 647 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Contours of Death & Disease in Early Modern England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 1997 book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations, and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived, understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers, poxes and plagues in past times. She examines, in particular, the significance of malaria in English demographic history, and provides a detailed account of the history of this once endemic disease. This broad-ranging and stimulating study will be of interest to historical demographers, medical historians, geographers and epidemiologists.

Contents:

1. Airs, waters and places

2. Regional and local settings

3. Geographical patterns of mortality

4. Geographical rhythms of mortality

5. The spectrum of death, disease and medical care

6. Marshlands, mosquitoes and malaria

7. Crises, fevers and poxes

8. The epidemiological landscapes of the past.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 540-621) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58184-X

0-511-00066-9