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In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of … total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the … decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (2) The use of variations in wheat prices to …
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