Author: Brian DOLAN
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Keywords: medicine, wellcome, institute, history, medica, series, clio, amp, morality, malthusianism, malthus
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2000-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 9042008415
ISBN-13: 9789042008410

Thomas Robert Malthus’s reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), the contributors to this volume take this timely opportunity to examine the historical conditions in which Malthus constructed his theory, and in which the concept of a ’Malthusian’ and ’Neo-Malthusian’ philosophy first emerged. The essays redress the balance between Mal