Health, Nutrition and Inequality in Latin America

Manuel Llorca-Jaña is a Full Professor of Economic and Business History at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).José Miguel Martínez-Carrión is a Full Professor of History and Economic Institutions at the University of Murcia (Spain).Ricardo Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.

• 1. Introduction to an Anthropometric History of Latin America 2. Growing up in turbulent times: Economic growth and biological wellbeing in Argentina, 1966-2000 3. Height inequality in Chile: an empirical analysis for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 4. Biological Standards of Living in Bolivia, 1880s-1990s 5. Height and health in Cartagena de Indias. Skeletal evidence from the 16th to the 19th Century 6. Feeding Mexico’s Growth: Nutrition and Living Standards in Twentieth-Century Mexico 7. Bodies of the Revolution: The Biological Wellbeing of Families in Central and Northern Mexico, 1880s-1940s 8. The biological welfare in Ecuador over the second half of the 20th century: an analysis of sociodemographic determinants of cohort adult height 9. Height of Uruguayan men in 19th and 20th centuries. A story of growth and stagnation (1870-2000) 10. Parental socioeconomic status and inequality of opportunity in body height of Brazilians: Evidence from cohorts born between 1940 and 1975 11. Socioeconomic Characteristics and the Nutrition Transition in Brazil: an analysis of the main national surveys from 1974 to 2019 12. The height of prisoners in early 20th-century Cuba: An approach to the biological well-being of the working poor

“This book makes a fundamental contribution to the study of anthropometric history in Latin America and is essential reading for those researching economic history and the Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) Factors that impact biological well-being in the region." - Barry Bogin (Loughborough University), author of Patterns of Human Growth, 3rd edition www.cambridge.org/9781108434485“This fine collection of essays, covering nine countries, and written by leading Latin American economic historians, provides readers with a valuable ‘state of the art’ of anthropometric history in the región. It shows well how the study of human stature can provide insights on the long-term evolution of welfare and inequality, while offering particularly new perspectives on both the colonial period and the second half of the twentieth century as well as the better-researched late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its wide coverage, including innovative essays on previously neglected countries like Cuba, Ecuador, and Bolivia, is extremely welcome”.- Rory M. Miller (University of Liverpool).“The study of human height as a welfare indicator is particularly promising in Latin America with its rich archival tradition: this book makes full use of these available sources and generates completely new insights”.- Joerg Baten (Tübingen University).