TY  - JOUR
AU  - Deaton,Angus
TI  - The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11308
PY  - 2005
Y2  - May 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11308
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11308.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Angus Deaton
361 Wallace Hall
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544-1013
Tel: 609/258-5967
Fax: 609/258-5974
E-Mail: deaton@princeton.edu
AB  - In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health, not only in comparing poor and rich countries, but in thinking about rich countries now and in the future. I discuss Fogel's analysis alongside alternative interpretations that place greater emphasis on the historical role of public health, and on the current and future role of improvements in medical technology.
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