Malthus, medicine and morality : : Malthusianism after 1798 / / edited by Brian Dolan.

• Superior document: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Dolan, Brian, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Rodopi,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica 59.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 232 pages).
• Notes: "All titles in the Clio Medica series (from 1999 onwards) are available to download from the CatchWord website: http://www.catchword.co.uk ."--Title page verso.; Based on a symposium held March 1998 at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

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)...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Malthusian Selections / Brian Dolan
• Malthus’s Political Economy of Health: The Critique of Scandinavia in the Essay on Population / Brian Dolan
• Boys to Men: Moral Restraint at Haileybury College / Timothy L. Alborn
• The Malthusian Moment / Roy Porter
• ‘Malthus on Man – In Animals no Moral Restraint’ / Robert M. Young
• Malthus Among the Theologians / Brian Young
• Malthus and the Doctors: Political Economy,Medicine, and the State in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1840 / Christopher Hamlin and Kathleen Gallagher-Kamper
• Malthusian Mutations: The changing politics and moral meanings of birth control in Britain / Lesley A. Hall
• Reproduction and Revolution: Paul Robin and Neo-Malthusianism in France / Angus McLaren
• Biology and Sociology of Fertility. Reactions to the Malthusian Threat, 1798–1933. / Antonello La Vergata.