Changing Body Floud Roderick Provost
Changing Body Floud Roderick Provost Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. This fascinating and groundbreaking book…
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Changing Body Floud Roderick Provost
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change.
The result is a major contribution to economic and social history It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions.