The decline of mortality in Europe

Author(s)

• Schofield, Roger
• Reher, David Sven
• Bideau, Alain

Bibliographic Information

The decline of mortality in Europe

edited by R. Schofield, D. Reher, A. Bideau

（International studies in demography）

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the remarkable decline of mortality in Europe which began in the nineteenth century and continued in an uninterrupted fashion, into the early twentieth century. The transition of mortality between 1870 and 1920 had profound effects for European and American societies. Interpretations explaining such changes have become a hotbed of controversy. Some scholars stress the importance of improved nutrition, levels of income, and living standards as the crucial factors. Others consider public health, social organization, and scientific advances to be more significant. This volume brings to light the different positions held on these various issues, describes advances made in the field, and indicates directions for future research.

Table of Contents

• Roger Schofield & David Reher: The decline of mortality in Europe
• Alfred Perrenoud: The attenutation of mortality crises and the decline of mortality
• Jacques Vallin: Mortality in Europe from 1720 to 1914: long-term trends and changes in patterns by age and sex
• Graziella Caselli: Health transition and cause-specific mortality
• Bi Puranen: Tuberculosis and the decline of mortality in Sweden
• Patrice Bourdelais: Cholera: A victory for medicine?
• Peter B. Lunn: Nutrition, immunity, and infection
• Roderick Floud: Medicine and the decline of mortality: indicators of nutritional status
• John Burnett: Housing and the decline of mortality
• Michael R. Haines: Conditions of work and the decline of mortality
• Marie-France Morel: The Care of Children: The influence of medical innovation and medical institutions on infant mortality 1750-1914
• Jean Noel Biraben: Pasteur, Pasteurization, and medicine
• Robert Woods: Public health and public hygiene: the urban environment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Stephen J. Kunitz: The personal physician and the decline of mortality
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA14060671
• ISBN:
  • 0198283288
• LCCN: 90019692
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 270 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB1411
  • DC20 : 304.6/4/094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mortality -- Europe -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00932759