ENGLISH

Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt

By Walter Scheidel

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2001
ISBN
9004123237, 9789004123236
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5922745 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 228
Pages
286\316
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-07-09 16:42:27
Ancient;Life Expectancy;Egypt;Diseases;DoodsoorzakAncient;Mortality;Demography;History of Medicine;HDiseases -- Egypt -- History;Demography -- Egypt -

Description

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the relationship between disease and demography, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the evolution of mortality patterns, age structure and population density in premodern Egypt. Machine generated contents note: 1. Mortality patterns and causes of death1 -- 2. Age structure and life expectancy118 -- 3. Population size and demographic change181.

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