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Urbanisation and Child Health in Medieval and Post-Medieval England

An assessment of the morbidity and mortality of non-adult skeletons from the cemetries of two urban and two rural sites in England (AD 850-1859)

£29.00
Author:
Mary Lewis
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714462
Paperback:
96pp. Includes 29 figures, tables. Appendices
ISBN 10:
1841714461
BAR number:
B339
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This book developed out of the need to address the issues surrounding the potential impact of urbanization and later, industrialization, on past human health in England. The main aims of the research were to assess differences in the levels of morbidity and mortality in non-adults from urban and rural environments, and to explore the types of evidence for morbidity observed on non-adult skeletons. The study was based on two urban (York and London) and two rural (Northamptonshire and North Yorkshire) sites in England (between 850 and 1859). The use of skeletal and dental indicators of stress were examined as measures of environmental change, and also what factors in the urban and rural environments may be contributing to any difference between the samples.