Book ID: CBB000201540

Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (2002)

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Rusnock, Andrea A. (Author)


Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2002
Language: English


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xvi + 249 pp., illus., bibl., index

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Review Rosental, Paul-André (2005) Review of "Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France". American Historical Review (p. 1133). unapi

Review Lynch, Katherine A. (2005) Review of "Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 116). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Almenara Barrios, José
Brown, Michael
Deutsch, Helen
Hanley, James G.
James, Tricia
Jarosz, Beth
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Economic History Review
Medical History
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Duke University Press
Quorum Editores
UCL Press
University of Toronto Press
Open University (United Kingdom)
Concepts
Vital statistics
Public health
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Mortality
Medicine
People
Chadwick, Edwin
Maclean, Charles,
Smith, Thomas Southwood
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
England
France
Africa
Egypt
Poland
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