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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 It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and women and to analyse it critically.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.

Business & Economics --- Demography --- Diseases --- Mortality --- History of medicine --- Medicine and society. --- History --- Belgium --- Flanders. --- Epidemiology --- Malaria --- Mortalité --- Maladies --- Epidémiologie --- Paludisme --- Histoire --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Flandre (Belgique) --- Population --- 932.9 --- Historische demografie --- Levensverwachting --- Mortaliteit --- Vlaanderen --- 302.3 --- demografie --- epidemiologie --- geschiedenis --- insecten --- levensverwachting --- malaria --- morbiditeit --- mortaliteit --- sterftecijfer --- 314 <09> <493-17> --- 659 Demografie --- 314 <09> <493-17> Bevolkingsgeschiedenis--Vlaanderen. Vlaams Gewest. Nederlandstalige Gemeenschap in België --- Bevolkingsgeschiedenis--Vlaanderen. Vlaams Gewest. Nederlandstalige Gemeenschap in België --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Death (Biology) --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Medicine --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick --- Bevolkingsstatistiek --- Bijzondere onderwerpen (Economische en sociale geschiedenis; algemeen) --- History. --- Economic history --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Social history --- 20th century

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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 It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and women and to analyse it critically.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.

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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 analyse 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.

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