The changing body
Subtitle: health, nutrition, and human development in the western world since 1700
By: Roderick Floud ... [et al.]
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER series on long-term factors in economic development; New approaches to economic and social history; NBER series on long-term factors in economic development; New approaches to economic and social history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780521705615; 9780521879750
Subjects: Nutrition; Anthropometrie; Human beings; Nutrition Surveys; Trends; Health; Life Expectancy; Anthropometry; Mortality; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Our changing bodies: 300 years of technophysio evolution; title: Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data; title: The analysis of long-term trends in nutritional status, mortality, and economic growth; title: Technophysio evolution and human health in England and Wales since 1700; title: Height, health, and mortality in continental Europe, 1700-2100; title: The American experience of technophysio evolution.