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This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field.Choosing the analytical me...
L’auteur examine d’une manière critique les chantiers les plus meurtriers de l’histoire de l’humanité. Il montre ici comment des millions d’hommes et de femmes ont, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours, laissé leur vie en bâtissant des tours, des murailles, des pyramides, des chemins de fer, des stades… L’histoire de la mortalité des ouvriers remonte à plusieurs millénaires, durant lesquels ils ont été exposés à divers dangers, d’abord en raison de la nature de leur travail, impliquant souvent des travaux en hauteur, l’utilisation d’outils dangereux, puis des machines lourdes, qui broient autant les pierres que les chairs.
Iris Borowy/Wolf D. Gruner: Introduction - W. Robert Lee: Cause-of-Death Classification in Interwar Europe and the Quality of Morality Data - Jörg Vögele/Thorsten Halling/Julia Schäfer: The Epidemiological Transition: Concept, Empirical Results, and Consequences for the Construction of "Human Capital" in Germany - Paul Weindling: Interwar Morbidity Surveys: Communities as Health Experiments - Iris Borowy: World Health in a Book - The International Health Yearbooks - Martin Gorsky/Bernard Harris: The Measurement of Morbidity in Interwar Britain: Evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society - Hana Mášová/Petr Svobodný: Health and Health Care in Czechoslovakia 1918-1938: From Infectious ...
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