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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      28 August 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511549489
      9780521472661
      9780521478601
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549489
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 496 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.795kg, 496 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Science Handbooks, Geography, Historical Geography, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (26)
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    Subjects:
    Science Handbooks, Geography, Historical Geography, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (26)
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    Using data collected for 350 cities from around the world, the authors use a variety of analytical methods to provide a global picture of what was happening to infectious epidemic diseases at a critical period in urban evolution on the international stage. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. To place the results in a wider time context, other data are used to look both backwards and forwards for nearly a century on either side of the twenty-five-year time window. The book presents a number of results that may be interpreted in the context of debates on the causes of long-term mortality decline from these infectious diseases. It will be of interest to students of demography, history of medicine, and economic history as well as to researchers already active in these fields.

    Reviews

    "...an important contribution to the still thin area of historical epidemiology..." Vincent J. Knapp, American Historical Review

    "This work, which folds together the fields of geopgraphy, history, demography, economics, epidemiology, and public health (among others), is interdisciplinary history at its best." Kenneth F. Kiple, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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