1. Foreword Stanley Engerman 2. Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition 3. Second thoughts on the European escape from hunger: famines, chronic malnutrition, and mortality rates 4. Trends in physiological capital: implications for equity in health care 5. Changes in disparities and chronic diseases through the course of the twentieth century 6. Some common problems in analysis and measurement 7. Afterword: a conversation with the author.
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