{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-study-of-human-growth-paperback-9780521134026","title":"A History of the Study of Human Growth (Paperback) 9780521134026","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of the Study of Human Growth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTracing the history of studies of the physical growth of children from the time of the Ancient Greeks onwards.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Mourilyan Tanner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521134026, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 18 March 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst published in 1981, Professor Tanner's volume traces the history of studies of the physical growth of children from the time of the Ancient Greeks onwards. The author summarises the background to and the achievement of the surveys of child growth made in the course of social reform throughout the nineteenth century, and shows their relevance for social and economic history. These are studies to which the author himself made outstanding contributions and the text shows an intimate knowledge, both as to programmes and personalities. It is a unique historical record. The author not only follows the evolution of ideas that lies behind the gradual emergence of studies of growth, but also summarises the results of these studies, charting the growth of children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will be of value for medical, social and economic historians as well as for paediatricians and biological anthropologists.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Human growth and the Ancient World\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Human proportion and the canons of beauty: the artistic and philosophic tradition\u003cbr\u003e 4. Iatromathematics and the introduction of measurement: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\u003cbr\u003e 5. The first growth studies: Montebeillard, the Carlschule and the recruiting officers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Adolphe Quetelet and the mathematics of growth\u003cbr\u003e 7. The rise of public health and the beginning of auxological epidemiology\u003cbr\u003e 8. Roberts, Galton and Bowditch: social class and family likeness\u003cbr\u003e 9. Educational auxology: school surveys and school anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 11. The contribution from clinical practice: fetal and infant growth\u003cbr\u003e age of manarche\u003cbr\u003e 12. The influence of educational psychology and child development: the North American longitudinal growth studies\u003cbr\u003e 13. Human biology and the study of growth disorders: the European longitudinal growth studies\u003cbr\u003e 14. National monitoring: population surveys and standards of growth\u003cbr\u003e 15. Coda: causes and effects of studies of growth\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Human biology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human biology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20biology%20%5BPSX%5D%22\"\u003ePSX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005670117656,"sku":"9780521134026","price":48.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521134026i_c204d69f-a13d-4ea3-9114-09aa7729ada3.jpg?v=1691372172","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-the-study-of-human-growth-paperback-9780521134026","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}