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Human demography and disease, Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan

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Human demography and disease, Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Human demography and disease

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1193950053

Responsibility statement

Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

Human Demography and Disease offers an interdisciplinary and integrated perspective on the relationship between historical populations and the dynamics of epidemiological processes. It brings the techniques of time-series analysis and computer matrix modelling to historical demography and geography to extract detailed information concerning the oscillations in births, deaths, migrations and epidemics from parish registers and other data series and to build mathematical models of the population cycles. This book presents a new way of studying pre-industrial communities and explores the subtle, and hitherto undetected effects of fluctuating nutritional levels on mortality patterns and the dynamics of infectious diseases. It will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students in the fields of demography, anthropology, historical geography, social history, population biology and epidemiology.--, Provided by publisher

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