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  • 1985-1989
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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316036495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 243 pages)
    DDC: 304.6/45
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995 ; Lebenserwartung
    Abstract: Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 242 pages)
    DDC: 362.1/0952
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Medizin ; Krankheit ; Anthropologie ; Volksmedizin ; Hygiene ; Japan
    Abstract: Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on several different levels. In this book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and beliefs, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of formalized medicine, health care aspects of Japanese religions, and biomedicine. These different systems compete with one another at some levels, but are complementary in providing health care to urban Japanese, who often use more than one system simultaneously. As an unequalled portrayal of health care in a modern industrial, but non-Western, setting, it will be of widespread interest to scholars and students of anthropology, medicine, and East Asian studies.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511523984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 145 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East library 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 614.4/9611
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1900 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Epidemics / Tunisia / History ; Public health / Political aspects / Tunisia / History ; Gesundheitswesen ; Epidemie ; Tunisia / History / 1516-1881 ; Tunesien ; Tunesien ; Epidemie ; Geschichte 1780-1900 ; Tunesien ; Gesundheitswesen ; Geschichte 1780-1900
    Abstract: Severe epidemics of plague, cholera, and typhus swept across Tunisia between the years 1780 and 1900. The society was galvanized into action: medical practitioners, religious authorities, and political leaders all tried to deal with the deadly crises. Muslims had, over many centuries, evolved ideas concerning the origin, prevention, and treatment of epidemic diseases that differed somewhat from those of their European counterparts. With European economic and political expansion that accelerated after the Napoleonic Wars, Muslims found themselves confronted not only by a new source of political power but by a new set of medical ideas. This study traces the medical confrontation through the society's response to epidemic disease
    Description / Table of Contents: Indigenous medicine against plague, 1780-1830 -- Cholera in an age of European economic expansion, 1830-58 -- Cholera, typhus, and economic collapse, 1858-70 -- Colonization and collapse of Arab medical institutions
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