Source, Method, and Surmise: Quality of Life in History

The purpose of the essay is to demonstrate that study of quality of life can explore eras before our own. There are caches of social data as early as the seventeenth century, and there were people who attempted to formulate social circumstances close to today's concepts of quality of life. Data...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social Indicators Research. - Springer Science + Business Media. - 94(2009), 2, Seite 227-239
1. Verfasser:	Jordan, Thomas E. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Social Indicators Research
Schlagworte:	History England Ireland Seventeenth century Nineteenth century William Petty Scale of salubrity Thomas A. Larcom Life expectancy Social trends mehr... Disease Social data Indexes Health sciences Behavioral sciences Law Social sciences Information science Biological sciences