A history of the study of human growth / J.M. Tanner
- Bib ID:
- 1651654
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tanner, J. M. (James Mourilyan)
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981
- xi, 499 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521224888
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. Human growth and the Ancient World; 2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance; 3. Human proportion and the canons of beauty: the artistic and philosophic tradition; 4. Iatromathematics and the introduction of measurement: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 5. The first growth studies: Montebeillard, the Carlschule and the recruiting officers; 6. Adolphe Quetelet and the mathematics of growth; 7. The rise of public health and the beginning of auxological epidemiology; 8. Roberts, Galton and Bowditch: social class and family likeness; 9. Educational auxology: school surveys and school anthropology; 11. The contribution from clinical practice: fetal and infant growth; age of manarche; 12. The influence of educational psychology and child development: the North American longitudinal growth studies; 13. Human biology and the study of growth disorders: the European longitudinal growth studies; 14. National monitoring: population surveys and standards of growth; 15. Coda: causes and effects of studies of growth; References; Notes; Index.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 403-454.
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