TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban history and historical epidemiology
T2 - The case of London, 1860-1920
AU - Luckin, Bill
AU - Mooney, Graham
N1 - Funding Information:
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* We are grateful for the financial support of the Wellcome Trust (grant number 044175). We would like to thank Derek Keene, Andrea Tanner, Violetta Hionidou, the editor and the anonymous referee for their helpful comments. 1 T.R. McKeown and R.G. Record, 'Reasons for the decline of mortality in England and Wales during the nineteenth century', Population Studies, 16 (1962), 94-122; T.R. McKeown, The Modern Rise ofPopulation (London, 1976). J. Landers, Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London 1670-1830 (Cambridge, 1993), 7. E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, 77K Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruc-tion (London, 1981).
PY - 1997/5
Y1 - 1997/5
N2 - Advocating a closer relationship between urban and epidemiological history, the paper concentrates, firstly, on a critical overview of the McKeown thesis. It next identifies components from the work of John Landers as a means of constructing a structural model of mortality experienced during the period under review. The paper goes on to examine the manner in which this model might be applied to London during an era in which the classic killing infections of the mid-nineteenth century were gradually replaced by non-infectious causes of death. Returning, by way of conclusion, to the theme of an integration of urban and epidemiological methodologies, attention is drawn to the explanatory potential of a fully historical economy of health and disease.
AB - Advocating a closer relationship between urban and epidemiological history, the paper concentrates, firstly, on a critical overview of the McKeown thesis. It next identifies components from the work of John Landers as a means of constructing a structural model of mortality experienced during the period under review. The paper goes on to examine the manner in which this model might be applied to London during an era in which the classic killing infections of the mid-nineteenth century were gradually replaced by non-infectious causes of death. Returning, by way of conclusion, to the theme of an integration of urban and epidemiological methodologies, attention is drawn to the explanatory potential of a fully historical economy of health and disease.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0963926800012165
DO - 10.1017/S0963926800012165
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0008394694
SN - 0963-9268
VL - 24
SP - 37
EP - 55
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
IS - 1
ER -