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

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9780521029988: Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980
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ISBN 10: 0521029988 ISBN 13: 9780521029988
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinossi

Height, Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

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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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521029988
ISBN 13 
9780521029988
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
380
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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