Health and disease in human history : a Journal of interdisciplinary history reader / edited by Robert I. Rotberg.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2000], ©2000.

345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Morbidity and mortality in human history: the struggle to survive / Robert I. Rotberg -- Nutrition and disease: the case of London, 1550-1750 / Andrew B. Appleby -- Diagnosis, death and diet: the case of London, 1750-1909 / Anne Hardy -- Mortality in Victorian England: models and patterns / Robert Woods ; P. R. Andrew Hinde -- Height, nutrition, and mortality: risk reconsidered / James C. Riley -- Fertility, nutrition and pellagra: Italy during the vital revolution / Massimo Livi-Bacci -- Urban sanitation in preindustrial Japan / Susan B. Hanley -- Spanish and Nahuatl views on smallpox and demographic catastrophe in Mexico / Robert McCaa -- Out of Africa: the slave trade and the transmission of smallpox to Brazil, 1560-1831 / Dauril Alden ; Joseph C. Miller -- Deficiency diseases in the Caribbean / Kenneth F. Kiple ; Virginia H. Kiple -- Mortality and family in the colonial Chesapeake / Daniel Blake Smith -- African mortality in the suppression of the slave trade: the case of the bight of Biafra / David Northrup -- The social context of child mortality in the American Southwest / Myron P. Gutmann ; Kenneth H. Fliess -- Kinship and migration: the making of an Oregon isolate community / Irene W. D. Hecht.