Modern Environments and Human Health

Molly K. Zuckerman 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.

"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)."  (American Journal of Human Biology, 9 February 2015)

• Contributors viiAcknowledgments ix1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Second Epidemiologic Transition 1Molly K. ZuckermanPart 1 Causes of the Second Epidemiologic Transition2 Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690–1807: An Ecological Perspective 17Gilda M. Anroman3 Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London: Patterns of Mortality and Frailty during Industrialization 35Sharon N. DeWitte4 The Wider Background of the Second Transition in Europe: Information from Skeletal Material 55Nikola Koepke5 The Epidemiological Transition in Practice: Consumption, Phthisis, and TB in the 19th Century 81Jeffrey K. BeemerPart 2 Epidemic Infectious Disease and the Second Epidemiologic Transition6 Agent-Based Modeling and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 105Carolyn Orbann, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller and Lisa Sattenspiel7 Does Exposure to Influenza Very Early in Life Affect Mortality Risk during a Subsequent Outbreak? The 1890 and 1918 Pandemics in Canada 123Stacey Hallman and Alain GagnonPart 3 Regional and Temporal Variation in the Second Epidemiologic Transition8 The Second Epidemiologic Transition in Western Poland 139Alicja Budnik9 The Timing of the Second Epidemiologic Transition in Small US Towns and Cities: Evidence from Local Cemeteries 163Lisa Sattenspiel and Rebecca S. Lander10 Industrialization and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community during the Industrial Revolution 179Peter M. KitsonPart 4 Marginalized and Underrepresented Communities in the Second Epidemiologic Transition11 Short Women and Their Stagnating Growth: A Study of Biological Welfare and Inequality of Women in Postcolonial India 201Aravinda Meera Guntupalli12 Tracking the Second Epidemiologic Transition Using Bioarchaeological Data on Infant Morbidity and Mortality 225Megan A. Perry13 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 243Carlina de la CovaPart 5 The Environment and the Second Epidemiologic Transition14 Reassessing the Good and Bad of Modern Environments: Developing a More Comprehensive Approach to Health Trend Assessment 267Lawrence M. Schell15 Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution 279Andrew Millard, Janet Montgomery, Mark Trickett, Julia Beaumont, Jane Evans, and Simon Chenery16 The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 301Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos17 Comparative Parasitological Perspectives on Epidemiologic Transitions: The Americas and Europe 321Karl J. Reinhard and Elisa Pucu de AraújoPart 6 Epilogue18 The Second Epidemiologic Transition, Adaptation, and the Evolutionary Paradigm 339George J. Armelagos19 The Second Epidemiologic Transition from an Epidemiologist’s Perspective 353Nancy L. Fleischer and Robert E. McKeown20 Methodological Perspectives on the Second Epidemiologic Transition: Current and Future Research 369Richard H. Steckel21 The Current State of Knowledge on the Industrial Epidemiologic Transition: Where Do We Go from Here? 377Timothy B. GageIndex 393