Introduction
Background
Theoretical Framework, Data, and Study Outline: The Concept of
Epidemiological Transition
A New Infectious Disease Environment
Mortality Decline, Food, and Population Growth: "Standard of
Living" and Nutrition
Smallpox
Typhus, Typhoid, Cholera, Diarrhea, and Dysentery
Infant Mortality
Child Mortality
Tuberculosis
Respiratory Diseases
Cardiovascular Disease
Cancer
Other Chronic Diseases
Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Mercer's comprehensive account of how infections may influence and
cause many 'man-made' diseases is something that has been missing
from most discussions of historic changes in mortality. [His] new
perspective is a welcome addition to the literature. By emphasizing
the complex interactions between infectious diseases and the link
between infections and chronic disorders it adds to our
understanding of the epidemiological transition.
*LOCAL POPULATION STUDIES*
[A] comprehensive overview of the epidemiological transition,
synthesising an enormous amount of knowledge and adding new
analysis.
*SWISS JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCES
(GESNERUS).*
Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition
offers a fascinating reworking of transition narratives. The
data-especially the comparative material-are rich, and the work
offers an excellent introduction into the debates on shifting
mortality dynamics.
*THE ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW*
[The book's] originality lies in bringing together scholarship
around the epidemiological transition with that around the McKeown
Thesis, well known to historians. This results in a lengthy book
that summarizes a huge body of work on changing disease patterns in
a way that many readers will find useful.
*BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE*
[H]istorians of medicine and population change will be grateful to
Alexander Mercer for providing an accessible and stimulating guide
to an important body of expanding scientific literature. The
perspectives of eco-epidemiology pose crucial questions for
historians to reconsider about how to interpret the epidemiological
evidence of the dramatically changing health patterns we have been
living through for the last three centuries.
*SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE*
This book will be very useful for researchers, students, and public
health policy makers who are interested in understanding the causes
of the epidemiological transition in disease patterns and
predicting future disease trends.
*CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES*
'Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition is
an outstanding contribution to understanding one of the most
important episodes in human history.' -
*Samuel Preston, Professor of Sociology, University of
Pennsylvania*
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