Health and the Rise of Civilization /

Health and the Rise of Civilization / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.

Civilized nations popularly assume that "primitive" societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using findings from epidemiology, anthropology, an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Sociology.
Demography.
Culture.
Food industry and trade.
Infection.
Medical personnel.
Paleontology.
Physical anthropology.
Industries.
Ethnology.
Social sciences.
Medical care.
Anthropology.
Public health.
Diseases.
Food supply.
Social medicine.
Civilization.
Paleopathology.
Communicable diseases.

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Call Number: RA418 .H435 2002
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