Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912

Cliff, A. D./ Haggett, Peter/ Smallman-Raynor, Matthew

ISBN 10: 052147860X / ISBN 13: 9780521478601

Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1998

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• Titolo: Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912
• Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052147860X
• ISBN 13: 9780521478601
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 0,82 chilogrammi

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Riassunto

Using data collected for 350 cities, the authors look at trends in global mortality at the turn of the century.

Recensione

"...an important contribution to the still thin area of historical epidemiology..." Vincent J. Knapp, American Historical Review

"This work, which folds together the fields of geopgraphy, history, demography, economics, epidemiology, and public health (among others), is interdisciplinary history at its best." Kenneth F. Kiple, Journal of Interdisciplinary History