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The Changing Body

The Changing Body

Floud, Roderick
Fogel, Robert W.
Harris, Bernard

Paperback

Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History

Public HealthAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521705614
ISBN13: 9780521705615
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 2011
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
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 fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible 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 major 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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