Human Biologists in the Archives

Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations

Libro editado por D. Ann Herring y Alan C. Swedlund (2003)

Contenido:

Foreword
Sydel Silverman and Michael A. Little xi

1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations
ALAN C. SWEDLUND and D. ANN HERRING

2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escaz´u, Costa Rica
LORENA MADRIGAL

3 Anthropometric data and population history
JOHN H. RELETHFORD

4 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions
PHILLIP L. WALKER and JOHN R. JOHNSON

5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century
ROSANNE L. HIGGINS

6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of ‘labor therapy’ at a nineteenth century asylum
SHAWN M. PHILLIPS

7 Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935–1960
LYNETTE LEIDY SIEVERT

8 Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence?
ALAN C. SWEDLUND and ALISON K. DONTA

9 The ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic
LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK and STACIE D.A. BURKE

10 War and population composition in A˚ land, Finland
JAMES H. MIELKE

11 Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach
LISA SATTENSPIEL

12 Where were the women?
ANNE L. GRAUER

13 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster
D. ANN HERRING, SYLVIA ABONYI and ROBERT D. HOPPA

14 Archival research in physical anthropology
MALCOLM T. SMITH