Biology of Plagues
Subtitle: Evidence from Historical Populations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780521801508
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; Historical geography; History of medicine; Human biology; Population & demography; History; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Medical / Epidemiology; Medical-History; Medical-Infectious Diseases; Science / Biology; 17th century; 16th century; Epidemics; Europe
First sentence: We first became interested in plagues when studying the demography of northwest England (Duncan et al., 1992; Scott &amp; Duncan, 1998), where an epidemic in the town of Penrith in 1597-98 killed some 40% of the population and initiated endogenous oscillations in the annual numbers of births and deaths.