The Changing Body The Changing Body
New Approaches to Economic and Social History

The Changing Body

Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

Roderick Floud and Others
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Publisher Description

It is only recently that the changing size, shape and capability of the human body has been linked to economic and demographic change. This groundbreaking book provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history, surveying the economic causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2013
6 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
456
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
6.6
MB

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