D. Ann Herring / Alan C. Swedlund (eds.)

Human Biologists in the Archives

Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations
Herausgeber: Herring, D. Ann; Mascie-Taylor, C. G. Nicholas; Swedlund, Alan C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521020114
• ISBN-10: 0521020115
• Artikelnr.: 21920343

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword S. Silverman and M. A. Little; 1. Human biology in the archives A.
Swedlund and D. A. Herring; 2. The use of archives in the study of
microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology of Esxazú, Costa Rica
L. Madrigal; 3. Anthropometric data and population history J. H.
Relethford; 4. For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births,
marriages and deaths at the Alta California missions P. L. Walker and J. R.
Johnson; 5. Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County
Almshouse during the mid-nineteenth century R. L. Higgins; 6. Worked to the
bone: the biomechanical consequences of 'labour therapy' at a nineteenth
century asylum S. Phillips; 7. Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health
history records at a private New England middle school, 1935-60 L. Leidy
Sievert; 8. Scarlet Fever epidemics of the nineteenth century; a case of
evolved pathogenic virulence? A. Swedlund and A. Donta; 9. The ecology of a
health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1965 cholera epidemic L. A. Sawchuck and
S. D. A. Burke; 10. War and population composition in Åland, Finland J. H.
Mielke; 11. Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modelling
approach L. Sattenspiel; 12. Where were the women? A. Grauer; 13.
Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological
and economic disaster D. A. Herring, S. Abonyi and R. D. Hoppa; 14.
Archival research in physical anthropology M. T. Smith; Index.