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Social History of Medicine 1994 7(2):297-320; doi:10.1093/shm/7.2.297
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Health, Height, and History: An Overview of Recent Developments in Anthropometric History1

BERNARD HARRIS*

* Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO9 5NH

SUMMARY This paper examines some of the major developments in the field of anthropometric history since the end of the 1970s. The first two sections of the paper consider the conceptual basis of anthropometric history and the relationship between height and the standard of living. Sections 3–7 discuss the contributions made by anthropometric historians to our understanding of the social and economic history of the United States, the history of American slavery, the social history of the United Kingdom, the origins of Habsburg industrialization, and the standard of living in nineteenth-century Sweden. The concluding section summarizes the impact of anthropometric history and identifies a number of areas for further research

Keywords: height; health; history; anthropometry; nutrition; standard of living

1 Earlier versions of this paper were presented to an ESRC-sponsored conference on the evaluation of quantitative approaches to social history (May 1993) and to the ESRC Workshop on Quantitative Economic and Social History (September 1993). I should like to thank all those who attended these meetings for their helpful suggestions. I should also like to express particular thanks to Roderick Floud, John Komlos, and Richard Steckel.


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