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Journal of Economic Literature - Book Review
JEL Volume. 50, Issue 2 | 
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Reviewed by: Robert A. Margo of Boston University and NBER
Review DOI: 10.1257/jel.50.2.513.r12
Review Pages: 541-43
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The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong
Published By: New Approaches to Economic and Social History. NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-521-87975-0, cloth; 978-0-521-70561-5, pbk.
Date of Publication: 2011
Published By: New Approaches to Economic and Social History. NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-521-87975-0, cloth; 978-0-521-70561-5, pbk.
Date of Publication: 2011
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Reviewed by: Robert A. Margo of Boston University and NBER
Review DOI: 10.1257/jel.50.2.513.r12
Review Pages: 541-43
Book Review Abstract
Robert A. Margo of Boston University and NBER reviews "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700" by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Presents an introduction to the field of anthropomorphic history and surveys the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet, and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. Discusses our changing bodies—three hundred years of technophysio evolution; investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data; the analysis of long-term trends in nutritional status, mortality, and economic growth; technophysio evolution and human health in England and Wales since 1700; height, health, and mortality in continental Europe, 1700–2100; and the American experience of technophysio evolution. Floud is Provost of Gresham College, London. Fogel is a professor of economics and Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Booth School of Business and Director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Harris is Professor of the History of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Hong is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sogang University. Index.
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JEL Classifications
I10: Health: General
N30: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Religion, and Wealth: General, International, or Comparative
N30: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Religion, and Wealth: General, International, or Comparative
