Modern environments and human health : revisiting the second epidemiological transition

Content: 1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Second Epidemiologic Transition / Molly K. Zuckerman --
Part 1 Causes of the Second Epidemiologic Transition --
2 Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690-1807: An Ecological Perspective / Gilda M. Anroman --
3 Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London: Patterns of Mortality and Frailty during Industrialization / Sharon N. DeWitte --
4 The Wider Background of the Second Transition in Europe: Information from Skeletal Material / Nikola Koepke --
5 The Epidemiological Transition in Practice: Consumption, Phthisis, and TB in the 19th Century / Jeffrey K. Beemer --
Part 2 Epidemic Infectious Disease and the Second Epidemiologic Transition --
6 Agent-Based Modeling and the Second Epidemiologic Transition / Carolyn Orbann, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller and Lisa Sattenspiel --
7 Does Exposure to Influenza Very Early in Life Affect Mortality Risk during a Subsequent Outbreak? The 1890 and 1918 Pandemics in Canada / Stacey Hallman and Alain Gagnon --
Part 3 Regional and Temporal Variation in the Second Epidemiologic Transition --
8 The Second Epidemiologic Transition in Western Poland / Alicja Budnik --
9 The Timing of the Second Epidemiologic Transition in Small US Towns and Cities: Evidence from Local Cemeteries / Lisa Sattenspiel and Rebecca S. Lander --
10 Industrialization and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community during the Industrial Revolution / Peter M. Kitson --
Part 4 Marginalized and Underrepresented Communities in the Second Epidemiologic Transition --
11 Short Women and Their Stagnating Growth: A Study of Biological Welfare and Inequality of Women in Postcolonial India / Aravinda Meera Guntupalli --
12 Tracking the Second Epidemiologic Transition Using Bioarchaeological Data on Infant Morbidity and Mortality / Megan A. Perry --
13 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 5 The Environment and the Second Epidemiologic Transition --
14 Reassessing the Good and Bad of Modern Environments: Developing a More Comprehensive Approach to Health Trend Assessment / Lawrence M. Schell --
15 Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution / Andrew Millard, Janet Montgomery, Mark Trickett, Julia Beaumont, Jane Evans, and Simon Chenery --
16 The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition / Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos --
17 Comparative Parasitological Perspectives on Epidemiologic Transitions: The Americas and Europe / Karl J. Reinhard and Elisa Pucu de Arajo --
Part 6 Epilogue --
18 The Second Epidemiologic Transition, Adaptation, and the Evolutionary Paradigm / George J. Armelagos --
19 The Second Epidemiologic Transition from an Epidemiologist's Perspective / Nancy L. Fleischer and Robert E. McKeown --
20 Methodological Perspectives on the Second Epidemiologic Transition: Current and Future Research / Richard H. Steckel --
21 The Current State of Knowledge on the Industrial Epidemiologic Transition: Where Do We Go from Here? / Timothy B. Gage.