TY - BOOK ID - 14480742 TI - Quality of Life and Mortality in Seventeenth Century London and Dublin PY - 2017 SN - 3319443682 3319443674 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Social sciences. KW - Medical research. KW - Quality of life. KW - Health psychology. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Quality of Life Research. KW - Health Psychology. KW - Quality of life KW - History KW - Life, Quality of KW - Economic history KW - Human ecology KW - Life KW - Social history KW - Basic needs KW - Human comfort KW - Social accounting KW - Work-life balance KW - Quality of Life KW - Psychology, clinical. KW - Research. KW - Biomedical research KW - Medical research KW - Health psychology KW - Health psychology, Clinical KW - Psychology, Clinical health KW - Psychology, Health KW - Salutogenesis KW - Clinical psychology KW - Medicine and psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14480742 AB - This book provides an examination of the quantitative and qualitative factors affecting mortality in two major cities of the British Isles: London and Dublin. It covers a scale from individuals mentioned by name to aggregates of mortality data in the Bills of Mortality. Focusing on the Seventeenth Century, the book pays attention to the Great Plague of 1665, and to earlier years in which epidemics decimated populations. To the average person living in the seventeenth century, life was a series of challenges. Mortality among the young was high, and for those who survived early childhood, death in their fifties was fairly typical. Men and women might aspire to a longer life span, but even the healthiest practices were no guarantee when the overall quality of life was low. With fatal illnesses exemplified by typhoid fever on the one hand, and the arrival of yersinia pestis – plague through ports on the Mediterranean at regular intervals of several years, on the other, mortality became a foreseeable event. ER -