This mortal coil: a history of death
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem tha...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived? This book provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes, from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet, who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress |
| Beschreibung: | x, 359 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction: The Four Horsemen of Siena PART I CAUSES OF DEATH i What is Death? 2 Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality 3 Live Long and Prosper PARTII 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 15 33 INFECTIOUS DISEASE The Black Death The Milkmaid’s Hand Typhus and Typhoid in the Slums of Liverpool The Blue Death Childbirth Deadly Animals The Magic Bullet PART III i 53 77 89 99 107 113 129 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT n Hansel and Gretel 12 A Treatise on the Scurvy 13 The Body of Venus 137 161 i/3
CONTENTS xii PART IV 14 15 16 17 A LETHAL INHERITANCE Woody Guthrie and the Blonde Angel of Venezuela Daughters of the King The Brain of Auguste D Death Before Birth PART V 187 201 213 223 BAD BEHAVIOUR Thou Shalt Not Kill Alcohol and Addiction The Black, Stinking Fume Unsafe at Any Speed *35 249 Conclusion: A Bright Future? *93 Appendix: Life Table Data Acknowledgements Notes Image Credits Index 302 18 19 20 21 263 *79 311 31З 349 35і
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Contents Introduction: The Four Horsemen of Siena PART I CAUSES OF DEATH i What is Death? 2 Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality 3 Live Long and Prosper PARTII 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 15 33 INFECTIOUS DISEASE The Black Death The Milkmaid’s Hand Typhus and Typhoid in the Slums of Liverpool The Blue Death Childbirth Deadly Animals The Magic Bullet PART III i 53 77 89 99 107 113 129 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT n Hansel and Gretel 12 A Treatise on the Scurvy 13 The Body of Venus 137 161 i/3
CONTENTS xii PART IV 14 15 16 17 A LETHAL INHERITANCE Woody Guthrie and the Blonde Angel of Venezuela Daughters of the King The Brain of Auguste D Death Before Birth PART V 187 201 213 223 BAD BEHAVIOUR Thou Shalt Not Kill Alcohol and Addiction The Black, Stinking Fume Unsafe at Any Speed *35 249 Conclusion: A Bright Future? *93 Appendix: Life Table Data Acknowledgements Notes Image Credits Index 302 18 19 20 21 263 *79 311 31З 349 35і |
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