Health and disease in human history: a journal of interdisplinary history reader
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TextPublication details: London The MIT Press 2000Description: 345pgISBN: - 0-262-18207-7
- WA 105 .R68 2000
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Explains that for more than thirty years, interdisciplinary historians have studied how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite food scarcities, nutritional deficiencies, exposure to virulent disease pathogens, dangerous forms of sanitation and other public health problems, menacing urban streets, fearsome and infectious sea voyages, and many other morbid and mortal hazards. That populations grew and economies developed is a tribute to many kinds of human advances. But progress was neither linear nor consistent; nor was it equivalent across continents and cultures. It suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement; agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.
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