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A Symposium: Disease, Health Programs, and Economic Development (Introduction)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Mark Perlman
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Extract

The confluence of rivers normally makes for interesting landscapes. With the right topography there are no marshes and, after the initial discovery, the area soon becomes the scene of considerable economic activity. So it is with the confluence of intellectual disciplines. With the right guidelines, the scene becomes one of fertile intellectual interchange.

Type
Health and Economic Development
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1966

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References

1 Razzell, P. E., “Population Change in Eighteenth-Century England: A Reinterpretation”, Economic History Review, 2nd series, XVIII (1965), pp. 312–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar.