Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980

by Roderick Floud, Annabel Gregory, Kenneth Wachter

Book Overview

In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the gap in living standards, morbidity and mortality between rich and poor. The measurement of height is a means of the direct assessment of nutritional status...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521029988
• ISBN13: 9780521029988
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"