Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland

• Main Author: Jordan, Thomas E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Maternal and infant welfare.; Quality of Life.; Quality of Life > Research.; Psychology, clinical.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Health Psychology.; Maternal and Child Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6122-3

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information�from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Housing as Quality of Life, Dublin�1798 1821
• Chapter 2. The Anthropometric Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875-1883
• Chapter 3. Mars and Hygeia: The Application of Victorian Army Data on Height to the Quality of Life in the British Population
• Chapter 4. ''The Great Contrast'': Factor Analysis Applied to Quality of Life in the Era of the Irish Famine (co-authored with Pickett, L.)
• Chapter 5. Victorian Economic Change and Heights: a Note on Lagged Effects
• Chapter 6. Sons of St. Patrick: Quality of Life and Heights of Young Irish Males at Mid-Nineteenth Century.