People, Environment, Disease and Death - Medical Geography of Britain Throughout the Ages (Hardcover, New edition)

This text looks at illness and death in Britain as something very dependant upon the whole environment. It adopts the environmental and geographical approach to the study of diseases and death from Medieval to modern times. Maps illustrate the favourable or unfavourable mortality experience of different parts of the country. This scientific study is aimed at the non-expert, to show the way in which the health of the British people is, and has been, influenced by (i)their racial history, blood groups, genes, and (ii)the environment - physical (weather, water, soils), biological (bacteria, viruses, pollen, fungi) and human (housing, food, drugs, pollution, noise, tabacco, alcohol, life-style, social environment). The way in which certain affilictions such as plague, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and so on have been, and still are more commonly suffered by the residents of one city, county or region than by others, is comprehensively studied - at various stages throughout British history.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	G.Melvyn Howe
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	225
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7083-1373-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Environmental factors Promotions
LSN:	0-7083-1373-6
Barcode:	9780708313732

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