It's a divisive topic in medical history - what caused the "mortality transition?" I tend to accept McKeown's thesis that it was improved nutrition and public health measures (most infectious diseases declined before medical treatments were discovered for them).
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Date: 2006-07-31 12:07 pm (UTC)