Mabel Craven Buer

Revival

Health, Wealth, and Population in the early days of the Industrial Revolution (1926)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive over view of eighteenth-century British medical reform, but as an economic historian, Buer considered the effect of diseases and medical intervention on population growth, not on medical ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781138554191
• ISBN-10: 1138554197
• Artikelnr.: 53167201

Autorenporträt

Mabel Craven Buer (1881-1942), Independent Lecturer in Economics at Reading Univeristy.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction II. Vital Statistics III. Population Statistics, Birth and
Death Rates IV. Individualism and Laisser Faire V. The Growth of Commerce
VI. Agriculture VII. Improvement of Towns VIII. Water Supply and Drainage
IX. The 18th Century Doctor and the British Pioneers of Public Health X.
The hospital and Dispensary Movement XI. General Hygiene and Midwifery XII.
Rickets and Scurvy XIII. Antiseptics, segregation, Leprosy and Plague XIV.
Smallpox in the 18th Century XV. The Anti-Typhus Campaign and the Fever
Hospital Movement XVI. Malaria XVII. Period 1815-1848 XVIII. Conclusion
Appendix Index