Modern Environments and Human Health Revisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition

Table of Contents
Preface #
Acknowledgments #

Part I: Studying the second epidemiological transition 

Introduction: Interdisciplinary approaches to the second epidemiological transition……...
Molly K. Zuckerman

Are modern environments really bad for us?: Revisiting the demographic and epidemiologic transitions…………………………………………………………………...
Timothy Gage

Part II: Re-examining the advantages and disadvantages of different types of evidence for studying the second epidemiological transition

Clarifying variation in growth patterns to assess population health: A case-study from St. Peter’s Church (Barton-upon-Humber).……………………………………………………
Evan M. Garofalo

Tracking the second epidemiological transition using bioarchaeological data on infant morbidity and mortality. …………………………………………………………………...
Megan A. Perry

The epidemiological transition in practice: Consumption, pthisis, and TB in the 19th century. ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Jeffrey Beemer

Part III: Exploring variation in the causes and effects of the second epidemiological transition through diverse strategies

Infectious disease in Philadelphia, 1690-1807: An ecological perspective………………...
Gilda M. Anroman

Industrialization and the changing mortality environment in an English community during the industrial revolution. ……………………………………………………………
Peter Kitson

The timing of the second epidemiological transition in small US towns and cities: Evidence from local cemeteries.……………………………………………………………
Lisa Sattenspiel and Rebecca Shattuck

Second epidemiological transition in Western Poland..……………………………………
Alicja Budnik

The anthropometric history of India during the 19th and 20th centuries…………………..
Aravinda Guntupalli

Tuberculosis in the second epidemiological transition in Switzerland……………………..
Kara L. Holloway, Renata Henneberg, Miguel de Barros Lopes, Kaspar Staub, Karl Link, Frank Rühli, and Maciej Henneberg.

Regional differences and temporal development of the nutritional status in Europe from the 8th century B.C. until the 18th century A.D.………………………………………….…
Nikola Koepke

Agent-based modeling and the second epidemiological transition…………………………
Carolyn Orbann, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller, Lisa Sattenspiel

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.…………………………………………………………………………
Carlina de la Cova

Part IV: Issues of secondary causality: The hygiene hypothesis, early life influences on adult health, and environmental quality during the second epidemiological transition
 
Does exposure to influenza early in life affect mortality risk during a subsequent outbreak? The 1890 and 1918 pandemics in Canada……………………………………….
Stacey Hallman and Alain Gagnon.

Modeling the second epidemiological transition in London: Patterns of mortality and frailty during industrialization.……………………………………………………………..
Sharon DeWitte

The Paleolithic disease-scape, the hygiene hypothesis, and the second epidemiological transition. …………………………………………………………………………………..
George J. Armelagos

Emergence and control of parasitic disease.……………………………………………..…
Karl Reinhard and Elisa Pucu de Araújo.

Urban environments, industrial pollutants, and human health, growth, and development…
Lawrence Schell

Human lead exposure in the British Isles during the industrial revolution…………………
Andrew Millard, Janet Montgomery, Mark Trickett, Julia Beaumont, Jane Evans, and Simon Chenery.

Part V: Epilogue

Epilogue: Evolutionary perspectives on the second epidemiological transition: current and future research.…………………………………………………………………………
George J. Armelagos

Epilogue: Methodological perspectives on the second epidemiological transition: current and future research. ………………………………………………………………………...
Richard H. Steckel

Epilogue: The current state of knowledge on the second epidemiological transition: where do we go from here? ………………………………………………………………...
Timothy Gage

Index 

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