Allemaal beestjes. Mortaliteit en morbiditeit in Vlaanderen, 18de-20ste eeuw
Abstract
This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and women and to analyze it critically. Isabelle Devos studies the mechanisms of the historic fall in the death rate in an original manner and answers the question why research on the causes of this decline has not progressed faster. While the discipline of historical demography orients the first part of her book, the discipline of historical epidemiology provides the perspective taken in the second part, in which the role of insects as spreaders of disease is explored. Essential in her study is the importance of local medical practitioners who already at the end of the Ancien Régime warned of the dangers present in the environment. Their ‘ecological’ thinking created a consciousness that was decisive for the further development of healthcare.
Keywords
historical demography; historical epidemiology; life expectancy; historische epidemiologie; levensverwachting; gezondheidszorg; historische demografie; healthcareDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_365396OCN
1030813769; 752502867Publisher
Academia PressPublisher website
https://www.academiapress.be/nlPublication date and place
Gent, 2006Series
Historische Economie en Ecologie,Classification
Belgium
Flemish
18th century, c 1700 to c 1799
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
For adult emergent readers
European history
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day
Social and cultural history