List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowlegments
1. The Degeneracy Question
Circumstances of Life
The Degeneracy Problem
Degeneracy as Theory
Fiction and Fact
The Problem
2. Towns, Housing, and Work
Health in Towns
Towns
Metropolitan Model Housing
Rural Housing
Scotland and Ireland
Ecology and Housing
Urbanization of Leeds
Work
3. Circumstances of Life
Genetics and Evolution
Nutrition
Disease
Mortality
Teeth
Poverty
Climate
Population Growth
Population, Climate, Mortality, and Height
Victorian Index of Children and Youth
4. Height and Body Mass of Children
Concepts
Heights 1805-1914
Appraising Social Level
Data
Selected Studies
Heights of Victorians
Heights and the Degeneracy Question
Estimating Rate of Change
Estimating Quetelet's Body Mass Index
Discussion
5. Mars and Hygeia
The Army as a Social System
Problems of Data
Recruits
Rejection Rates
The Boer War
Commentary
6. Social-Economic Circumstances and Height
The Industrial Revolution
Social Indicators
Nutrition
Economic Variables and Height
A Destructive Consideration of Heights
A Multivariate Analysis
7. Public Policy and Reform
Ideology
Shapers of Public Policy
Documents and Inquiries
Resistance
Private Philanthropy
Government in Action
Eras of Progressivism
8. Discussion
Data and Ideology
The Degeneracy Question
Stress
Appendices
Bibliography
Indexes