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An acclaimed account of family and community in medieval England
and Laslett's best-known and most influential book A renowned
scholar Laslett was also pioneer in bringing history to a wider
audience, writing and presenting radio and TV programmes and
founding the Open University in the 1960s This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schurer, helpfully placing
Laslett and his book in context
An acclaimed account of family and community in medieval England
and Laslett's best-known and most influential book A renowned
scholar Laslett was also pioneer in bringing history to a wider
audience, writing and presenting radio and TV programmes and
founding the Open University in the 1960s This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schurer, helpfully placing
Laslett and his book in context
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of
infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and
syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across
the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of
prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between
sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated
gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women
and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the
pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving
victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not
unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history
remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject
across more than two thousand years of human history. Following
asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of
evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2
addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases
first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from
bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing
surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and
its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different
ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists,
the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a
pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain.
Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University
of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws
on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of
England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schurer and Szreter were
permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the
responses of the inhabitants of thirteen communities to the special
questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider
the interactions between the social, economic and physical
environments in which people lived and their family-building
experience and behaviour. Techniques and approaches based in
demography, history and geography enable the authors to re-examine
the declines in infant mortality and marital fertility which
occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Comparisons are
drawn within and between white-collar, agricultural and industrial
communities, and the analyses, conducted at both local and national
level, lead to conclusions which challenge both contemporary and
current orthodoxies.
This volume is an important study in demographic history. Garrett, Reid, SchÜrer and Szreter use techniques and approaches drawn from demography, history and geography to explore the conditions under which declines in both infant mortality and fertility within marriage occurred in England and Wales between 1891 and 1911. Extensive use is made of previously unavailable census data drawn from thirteen communities in England and Wales, particularly those from the 1911 "fertility" census. The book's sometimes surprising conclusions will be of interest to all historians of Britain and of demography.
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