Overview
- Takes a quality of life approach to examine the high mortality rate in the early modern era
- Includes data from Bills of Mortality kept by the parishes
- Examines several social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of life
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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To the average person living in the seventeenth century, life was a series of challenges. Mortality among the young was high, and for those who survived early childhood, death in their fifties was fairly typical. Men and women might aspire to a longer life span, but even the healthiest practices were no guarantee when the overall quality of life was low. With fatal illnesses exemplified by typhoid fever on the one hand, and the arrival of yersinia pestis – plague through ports on the Mediterranean at regular intervals of several years, on the other, mortality became a foreseeable event.
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Keywords
- Health and Quality of Life in London and Dublin
- Quality of Life and Mortality
- Life Expectancy at Birth in Dublin
- Emotional Well-Being
- Happiness and Satisfaction
- Dublin’s Bills of Mortality
- John Graunt’s Natural and Political Observations
- Quality of Life in the Early Modern Era
- Quantitative Factors Affecting Quality of Life
- Qualitative Factors Affecting Quality of Life
- Quality of Life in the Seventeenth Century
- Great Plague of 1665
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Book Title: Quality of Life and Mortality in Seventeenth Century London and Dublin
Authors: Thomas E. Jordan
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44368-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44367-6Published: 05 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44368-3Published: 29 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 70
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Health Psychology, Quality of Life Research