Height Health And History
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Height Health And History
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Author : Roderick Floud
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
Height Health And History written by Roderick Floud and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with History categories.
Height, Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.
Height Health And History
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Author : Roderick C. Floud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Height Health And History written by Roderick C. Floud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Changing Body
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Author : Roderick Floud
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31
The Changing Body written by Roderick Floud and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.
The Truth About Your Height
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Author : Thomas T. Samaras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Truth About Your Height written by Thomas T. Samaras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Family & Relationships categories.
The first book ever to explore the multi-faceted impact of increasing size in humans. The Truth About Your Height is receiving wide national and international recognition as a pioneer work on how increasing human stature affects health, resources, the environment, and survival of the human race. Extensive information is given on healthful nutritional and exercise practices. It also describes the role of height and other factors on how long one will live. Harper's Magazine, Vice President Al Gore, and many scientists have given it high praise. "This is an incredible book... absolutely phenomenal... an encyclopedia of knowledge about the human body... I just can't put it down". -- Dr. Heigh, M.D., Host "Talking Health" "An excellent book for all to read who care about the human anatomy, the effects of people's size on health and performance, the world population explosion, and the preservation of our environment". -- Dr. Benjamin H. Alexander, Ph.D. President, Drew Dawn Enterprises, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education, Washington, D.C.
Size Matters
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Author : Stephen S. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2006
Size Matters written by Stephen S. Hall and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Health & Fitness categories.
With a bracing mix of fresh research, incisive reportage, and personal candor, Hall uncovers the causes and effects of society's bias against shortness and reveals how short people can and do thrive in spite of this insidious bigotry.
Infections Chronic Disease And The Epidemiological Transition
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Author : Alex Mercer
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2014
Infections Chronic Disease And The Epidemiological Transition written by Alex Mercer and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Medical categories.
In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare (DNHW) commissioned a film, eventually called Challenge. Science Against Cancer, as part of a major effort to recruit young scientists into cancer research. Both organizations feared that poor recruitment would stifle the development of the field at a time when funding for research was growing dramatically. The fear was that there would not be enough new young scientists to meet the demand, and that the shortfall would undermine cancer research and the hopes invested in it. Challenge aimed to persuade young scientists to think of cancer research as a career. This book is the story of that forgotten film and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century American and Canadian cancer research, educational filmmaking, and health education campaigns. It explores why Canadian and American health agencies turned to film to address the problem of scientist recruitment; how filmmakers turned such recruitment concerns into something they thought would work as a film; and how information officers at the NCI and DNHW sought to shape the impact of Challenge by embedding it in a broader educational and propaganda program. It is, in short, an account of the important, but hitherto undocumented, roles of filmmakers and information officers in the promotion of post-Second World War cancer research.
The Biological Standard Of Living On Three Continents
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Author : John Komlos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Biological Standard Of Living On Three Continents written by John Komlos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with History categories.
The effort of anthropometric historians to unearth the broad patterns of human biological well-being has led to the examination of nearly forgotten, centuries-old records from dusty archives in practically all the continents of the globe. French historians in the Annales tradition were among the first to adopt methods from physical anthropology and from the biological sciences, but the real expansion of the field dates from the pathbreaking work of Richard Steckel and Robert Fogel, which launched the discipline of anthropometric history on American soil Research has confirmed that physical stature is related to nutritional status and therefore to real family income, and thus to the general standard of living. Historians and development economists will find this line of research useful, as it informs us about the standard of living of members of society for whom data on wages are seldom available—women, children, aristocrats, farmers, and slaves. In addition, this research has shown that the biological standard of living may diverge from conventional indicators of welfare during the early stages of industrialization. Thus, per capita income is an ambiguous measure of welfare during some phases of growth, and it must be supplemented with data from other indicators, such as physical stature. The essays in this volume broaden our knowledge of the human effects of the momentous economic changes of the last two centuries, extending analysis to regions for which such information has been lacking, including Russia, Canada, Indonesia, Italy, and Spain.
Height Health Nutrition And Wealth
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Author : Moramay López-Alonso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Height Health Nutrition And Wealth written by Moramay López-Alonso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Mexico categories.
Health And Disease In Human History
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Author : Robert I. Rotberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000
Health And Disease In Human History written by Robert I. Rotberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Diseases and history categories.
This collection of essays suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement, agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.
Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society
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Author : Andrew Spicer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society written by Andrew Spicer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with History categories.
A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.