Book ID: CBB001320093

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 (2011)

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Floud, Roderick (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Corporate Author: National Bureau of Economic Research
Physical Details: xxvi + 431 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This book presents an introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a book that is a contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.

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Authors & Contributors
Dinges, Martin
Maspoli, Rossella
Lise Shapiro Sanders
Pamela K. Stone
Wells, Julia
Janssen, Diederik F.
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Health
Human body
Medicine
Medicine and society
Medicine and gender
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Early modern
Places
England
Rhodesia
Kenya
United States
North America
Germany
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