Health, Wealth and Population in the Early Days of the Industrial Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780415382182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 312 str.

M. C. Buer;Buer M. C.

Opis

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Vital statistics Chapter 3. Population statistics, birth and death rates Chapter 4. Individualism and Laissez-faire Chapter 5. The growth of commerce Chapter 6. Agriculture Chapter 7. Improvement of towns Chapter 8. Water supply and drainage Chapter 9. The 18th century doctor and the British pioneers of public health Chapter 10. The hospital and dispensary movement Chapter 11. General hygiene and midwifery Chapter 12. Rickets and scurvy chapter 13. Antiseptics, segregation, leprosy and plague Chapter 14. Smallpox in the 18th century Chapter 15. The anti-Typhus campaign and the Fever Hospital Movement Chapter 16. Malaria - general summary Chapter 17. The period 1815-1848 Chapter 18. Conclusion

O autorze

M.C. Buer