Patricia Cohen of NYT reviews the upcoming book of Robert Fogel -The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 (his paper based on ideas here) . Fogel was a 1993 Nobel winner for his work on economic history (in particular cliometrics).
He has lately been looking at health, human development issues from a historical perspective and the book has amazing findings:
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