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Contours of death and disease in early modern England, Mary J. Dobson

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Contours of death and disease in early modern England

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Mary J. Dobson

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time, 29Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

This 1997 book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations, and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived, understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers, poxes and plagues in past times. She examines, in particular, the significance of malaria in English demographic history, and provides a detailed account of the history of this once endemic disease. This broad-ranging and stimulating study will be of interest to historical demographers, medical historians, geographers and epidemiologists.--, Provided by publisher

1. Airs, waters and places -- 2. Regional and local settings -- 3. Geographical patterns of mortality -- 4. Geographical rhythms of mortality -- 5. The spectrum of death, disease and medical care -- 6. Marshlands, mosquitoes and malaria -- 7. Crises, fevers and poxes -- 8. The epidemiological landscapes of the past

Contours of Death & Disease in Early Modern England