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This Mortal Coil - A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year (Paperback)
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This Mortal Coil - A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year (Paperback)
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A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book'
Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'
Economist 'Full of curious facts' The Times Causes of death have
changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries
we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to
strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad
harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of
a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so
much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from
infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in
industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do
changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have
lived? University of Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an
eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at
particular causes - from infectious disease to genetic disease,
violence to diet - who they affected, and the people who made it
possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and
torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in
preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first
washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the
public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and
the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped
with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in
emotional distress. This Mortal Coil is a thrilling story of
growing medical knowledge and social organisation, of achievement
and, looking to the future, of promise.
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