Thesis
Waists, health and history: obesity in nineteenth century Britain
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The scale of the current global obesity epidemic and the implications of this for health, functionality and economics, dictates that assessing the origins of overnutrition must become a priority in all research fields. To date anthropometric historians have mainly utilised institutional sources providing height and occasionally weight data for a sample of the working class who experienced deprivation. Tailoring institutions offer new, innovative sources for the field; uniquely measuring ...
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+ Economic and Social Research Council: Economic History Society
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Funding agency for:
Campbell, S
Grant:
ES/I030530/1
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:9215
- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Campbell, S
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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