Revival
Subtitle: Health, Wealth, and Population in the early days of the Industrial Revolution
By: Mabel Craven Buer
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781315124346
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Public health; Population; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Révolution industrielle; Santé publique; Conditions économiques; Conditions sociales; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industries; Manufacturing Industries; HISTORY; General; Economic history
Description: "This book provides a comprehensive over view of eighteenth-century British medical reform, but as an economic historian, Buer considered the effect of diseases and medical intervention on population growth, not on medical ideas. Other optimistic views of the century either focused, like Buer, on the 'standard of living debate' or a related debate about the role (if any) of hospitals and public health measures in reducing mortality during the industrial revolution, giving only pasing attention to disease theory."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I Introduction; title: chapter II Vital Statistics; title: chapter III Population Statistics, Birth and Death Rates; title: chapter IV Individualism and Laisser Faire; title: chapter V The Growth of Commerce; title: chapter VI Agriculture; title: chapter VII Improvement of Towns; title: chapter VIII Water Supply and Drainage; title: chapter IX The 18th Century Doctor and the British Pioneers of Public Health; title: chapter X The Hospital and Dispensary Movement; title: chapter XI General Hygiene and Midwifery; title: chapter XII Rickets and Scurvy; title: chapter XIII Antiseptics, Segregation, Leprosy and Plague; title: chapter XIV Smallpox in the 18th Century; title: chapter XV The Anti-Typhus Campaign and the Fever Hospital Movement; title: chapter XVI Malaria{u2014}General Summary; title: chapter XVII The Period 1815{u2013}1848; title: chapter XVIII Conclusion.