{"product_id":"modern-environments-and-human-health-isbn-9781118504208","title":"Modern Environments and Human Health","description":"Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, \u003ci\u003eModern Environments and Human Health\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiological transition. The first book to address the subject from a multi-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective, \u003ci\u003eModern Environments and Human Health\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable resource for students and academics in biological anthropology, economics, history, public health, demography, and epidemiology.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors vii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Second Epidemiologic Transition 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMolly K. Zuckerman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Causes of the Second Epidemiologic Transition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690–1807: An Ecological Perspective 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGilda M. Anroman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London: Patterns of Mortality and Frailty during Industrialization 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon N. DeWitte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Wider Background of the Second Transition in Europe: Information from Skeletal Material 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNikola Koepke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Epidemiological Transition in Practice: Consumption, Phthisis, and TB in the 19th Century 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey K. Beemer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Epidemic Infectious Disease and the Second Epidemiologic Transition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Agent-Based Modeling and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarolyn Orbann, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller and Lisa Sattenspiel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Does Exposure to Influenza Very Early in Life Affect Mortality Risk during a Subsequent Outbreak? The 1890 and 1918 Pandemics in Canada 123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStacey Hallman and Alain Gagnon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Regional and Temporal Variation in the Second Epidemiologic Transition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Second Epidemiologic Transition in Western Poland 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlicja Budnik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Timing of the Second Epidemiologic Transition in Small US Towns and Cities: Evidence from Local Cemeteries 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Sattenspiel and Rebecca S. Lander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Industrialization and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community during the Industrial Revolution 179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter M. Kitson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Marginalized and Underrepresented Communities in the Second Epidemiologic Transition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Short Women and Their Stagnating Growth: A Study of Biological Welfare and Inequality of Women in Postcolonial India 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAravinda Meera Guntupalli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Tracking the Second Epidemiologic Transition Using Bioarchaeological Data on Infant Morbidity and Mortality 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMegan A. Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Biological Effects of Urbanization and In-Migration on 19th-Century-Born African Americans and Euro-Americans of Low Socioeconomic Status: An Anthropological and Historical Approach 243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarlina de la Cova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5 The Environment and the Second Epidemiologic Transition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Reassessing the Good and Bad of Modern Environments: Developing a More Comprehensive Approach to Health Trend Assessment 267\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence M. Schell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Millard, Janet Montgomery, Mark Trickett, Julia Beaumont, Jane Evans, and Simon Chenery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 301\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMolly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 Comparative Parasitological Perspectives on Epidemiologic Transitions: The Americas and Europe 321\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl J. Reinhard and Elisa Pucu de Araújo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6 Epilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 The Second Epidemiologic Transition, Adaptation, and the Evolutionary Paradigm 339\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge J. Armelagos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19 The Second Epidemiologic Transition from an Epidemiologist’s Perspective 353\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy L. Fleischer and Robert E. McKeown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20 Methodological Perspectives on the Second Epidemiologic Transition: Current and Future Research 369\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard H. Steckel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e21 The Current State of Knowledge on the Industrial Epidemiologic Transition: Where Do We Go from Here? 377\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy B. Gage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 393\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The volume serves as a critical step towards cross-disciplinary communication and shows promise that future research on epidemiologic transitions will draw from an even wider array of cross-disciplinary perspectives (e.g., Klaus, 2014).\"  (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Human Biology\u003c\/i\u003e, 9 February 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMolly K. Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. The author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Zuckerman also teaches introductory courses in anthropology and biological anthropology, osteology, and human behavior and disease.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTransition\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiologic transition - the shift from a high burden of epidemic, infectious illness to greater morbidity and mortality from chronic and degenerative diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding how, why, and when the transition occurred across different regions and communities can provide critical insight into the relationships between economic growth, environmental quality and change, and human health. This comprehensive book brings together skeletal, archaeological, biodemographic, geochemical, environmental, epidemiological, cemetery, social history, and parasitological data to shed light on this important epidemiologic transition, and to inform current debates on the best ways to allocate public health funding in developed and developing countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first book to address the second epidemiologic transition from a multi-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective, \u003ci\u003eModern Environments and Human Health\u003c\/i\u003e will be a valuable resource for students and academics in biological anthropology, economics, history, public health, demography, and epidemiology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey features include:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• discusses the second epidemiologic transition from a multi-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• brings together skeletal, archaeological, biodemographic, geochemical, environmental, epidemiological, cemetery, social history, and parasitological data\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• provides significant detail on data, methods and findings for potential replication\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989640954085,"sku":"NP9781118504208","price":173.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118504208.jpg?v=1761784921","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/modern-environments-and-human-health-isbn-9781118504208","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}