Understanding And Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.

Frailty and famine: Patterns of mortality and physiological stress among victims of famine in medieval London.

OBJECTIVES Famine can be defined as a shortage of foodstuffs that instigates widespread excess mortality due to starvation, infectious disease, and social disruption. Like other causes of catastrophic mortality, famine has the potential to be selective. This study examines how famines in medieval London were selective with respect to previous stress, age, and sex. METHODS This study compares ...

Agricultural Head Rents, Pre-Famine and Post-Famine

N o country can ever be held in just estimation", proclaimed Arthur Y o u n g in 1780, " w h e n the rental of it is u n k n o w n " : and Y o u n g , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. 1 His w a s the rhetoric of the political arithmetician, but he w a s neither the first nor the last to e m b a r k o n aggregate calculations. Several of the best-known pa...

Understanding the Entitlement Approach to Famine

The writings of the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen caused a huge stir when it challenged the popular view that famine was due to shortage of food. Though this view of Professor Sen was based on analysis of the Bengal famine that occurred in the year 1943, he subsequently analysed the contemporary famine of Asia and Africa and generalized his conclusion. Thus the criticism of the popular view on fam...