The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside down: Britain’s Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa (2021)
This chapter offers a revisionist appraisal of the classic 1971 version of the epidemiologic transition model, which was much cited throughout the 1980s and 1990s when the World Bank was imposing structural adjustment plans and conditional loans on many countries in Africa and across the world. This was a general historical model that relied principally on evidence about British history for its empirical plausibility. Despite its wide currency and subsequent influence, it was not a model historians of Britain have ever signed up to. This chapter points out that, in fact, demographic historians’ reconstruction of England’s epidemiological history is greatly
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