Preface
1. Human growth and the Ancient World
2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
3. Human proportion and the canons of beauty: the artistic and philosophic tradition
4. Iatromathematics and the introduction of measurement: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
5. The first growth studies: Montebeillard, the Carlschule and the recruiting officers
6. Adolphe Quetelet and the mathematics of growth
7. The rise of public health and the beginning of auxological epidemiology
8. Roberts, Galton and Bowditch: social class and family likeness
9. Educational auxology: school surveys and school anthropology
11. The contribution from clinical practice: fetal and infant growth
age of manarche
12. The influence of educational psychology and child development: the North American longitudinal growth studies
13. Human biology and the study of growth disorders: the European longitudinal growth studies
14. National monitoring: population surveys and standards of growth
15. Coda: causes and effects of studies of growth
References
Notes
Index.
