Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)

This 1997 book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations, and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived, understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers, poxes and plagues in past times. She examines, in particular, the significance of malaria in English demographic history, and provides a detailed account of the history of this once endemic disease. This broad-ranging and stimulating study will be of interest to historical demographers, medical historians, geographers and epidemiologists.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Mary J. Dobson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	670
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-40464-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-521-40464-9
Barcode:	9780521404648

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