Diet and Health in Modern Britain - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1041012519 ISBN 13 : 9781041012511

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated. How was infant and child mortality reduced? How did family life go on in conditions where income was low and sometimes intermittent, where protected water supplies and proper sanitation were not available, and where food preservation and food technology were still limited? How did the state devise diets for those in its care? What were the choices available for consumers?

The contributors to this book were historians and nutritionists and this gives a strong interdisciplinary flavour to the volume. Many of the problems encountered during British urban development were being experienced in the developing world at the time. The way in which Britain coped with the health hazards of late-nineteenth-century urban squalor had much to tell those concerned with similar problems in contemporary cities in the developing world. The book makes clear that life in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and life in the developing world at the time represented similar stages of the process of demographic transition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Derek J. Oddy (1931–2018) was, at the time of original publication, Principal Lecturer in Modern Economic History at the Polytechnic of Central London, UK.

Derek S. Miller was, at the time of original publication, Research Fellow at the Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, London, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041012519
• ISBN 13: 9781041012511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Éditeur: Oddy Derek J., Miller Derek S.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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