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The modern rise of population

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Academic Press, 1976 - Medical - 168 pages

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McKeown's influential and controversial thesis regarding the origins of the modern population boom is clearly rendered and lucidly defended in this seminal work. He posits that exponential rates of ... Read full review

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Contents

The problem and the approach i
12
Fertility and mortality
18
Diseases which declined
44
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TitleThe modern rise of population
AuthorThomas McKeown
PublisherAcademic Press, 1976
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized12 Mar 2008
ISBN0124855504, 9780124855502
Length168 pages
Subjects › 

Communicable diseases
Diet
Medical / History
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Medicine
Population
Public Health
Public health
Social Science / Demography
  
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