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Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521892889
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 304.640942209032
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 672
Weight: 1123g
Height: 235mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 42mm