Bernard Harris

Biographic Data

ID3625467
NAMEBernard Harris
GIVEN NAMESBernard
FAMILY NAMEHarris
SIGNATUREHARRIS B
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0009-0008-9741-3130
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: A systematic review of child growth studies since the 19th century

    Open AccessEric B Schneider, Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…

  • Climate Effects and Stature since 1800

    Open AccessGregori Galofré-Vilà, Gregori Galofré‐vilà et al.ARTICLESocial Science History2018Cited by: 1References: 49

    During the last 30 years, economic and social historians have collected and analyzed large amounts of anthropometric data to explore key aspects of the human past. Attention has also been devoted to the examination of factors that can exert an influence on stature. This article outlines the different ways in which climate might influence stature, either directly or indirectly. It then uses geographical information system software to explore the r…

  • Long-term changes in sickness and health: Further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society1

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard Harris et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2012Cited by: 2References: 15

    This article presents new evidence on long-term trends in sickness rates in England and Wales using data from the Hampshire Friendly Society. In previous work, Edwards, Gorsky, Harris, and Hinde argued that this Society contained a uniquely detailed set of records for the study of individual sickness histories. However, their initial findings were based on the records of a relatively small number of men who joined the Society at different points …

  • The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

    Open AccessRoderick Floud, Robert William Fogel et al.BOOKChanging Body2011Cited by: 3

    Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the c…

  • The intractable cigarette ‘filter problem’

    Open AccessBernard Harris, Bradford HarrisARTICLETobacco Control2011

    This study indicates that cigarette designers at Philip Morris, British-American Tobacco, Lorillard and other companies believed for a time that they might be able to reduce some of the most dangerous substances in mainstream smoke through advanced engineering of filter tips. In their attempts to accomplish this, they developed the now ubiquitous cellulose acetate cigarette filter. By the mid-1960s cigarette designers realised that the intractabi…

  • The 'cultural inflation of morbidity' during the English mortality decline: A new look

    Open AccessMartin Gorsky, A M Guntupalli et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Cited by: 1References: 20

  • Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective - By Robert Woods

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2011

  • Years of State Pension: Learning from the past - By Tony Slater, Andrew Bryans, Colin Redman, and Martin Hewitt

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2010

  • Low income, social growth and good health: A history of twelve countries - By James C. Riley

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2009

  • Unemployment, poverty and health in interwar south Wales – By Steven Thomson

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2007

  • Age, Sickness, and Longevity in the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries: Evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society

    Open AccessMartin Gorsky, Brice Harris et al.ARTICLESocial Science History2006References: 14

    We examine the relationship between age, sickness, and longevity among men who were members of the Hampshire Friendly Society (HFS) in southern England during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The HFS insured its members against sickness, death, and old age, keeping detailed records of the claims for sick pay submitted by its members from 1868 onward. From 1892 onward these records included information about the cause of the …

  • Health and wealth: Studies in history and policy - Simon Szreter

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2006

  • The Origins of the British Welfare State

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisBOOKThe Origins of the British…2004

  • Sickness, insurance and health: Assessing trends in morbidity through friendly society records

    Claudia Edwards, Martin Gorsky et al.ARTICLEAnnales de Démographie Historique2003

    During the last twenty years, social and demographic historians have used a variety of approaches to investigate the health of past generations. Whilst a great deal of effort has been devoted to the analysis of anthropometric indicators, a smaller number of historians have used friendly society records to investigate aspects of sickness and morbidity. This paper reports our own efforts to investigate the health experience of members of the Hampsh…

  • Human Growth from Conception to Maturity

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2003

  • The Social History of Health and Healing

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly1999

    These three books examine very different aspects of the history of health and medicine in Britain, France and Germany since the mid-seventeenth century. They also illustrate differing views of the relationship between the past and the present. John Frangos, From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick: the Changing Institution of Paris Hospitals under the Old Regime and Revolution, London, Associated University Presses, 1997; ISBN 0–838–63705–1; 247…

  • Growing Taller, Living Longer? Anthropometric History and the Future of Old Age

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLEAgeing and Society1997Cited by: 2

    In recent years, economic and social historians have made increasing use of anthropometric records (principally, records of human height and weight) to investigate changes in human health and well-being. This paper summarises some of the main findings of this research and demonstrates the remarkable increases in human height which have occurred during the course of the present century. The paper also examines the relationship between changes in a…

  • The Health of the Schoolchild

    John Welshman, Brice Harris et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997Cited by: 2

  • Health, Height, and History: An Overview of Recent Developments in Anthropometric History

    Brice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLESocial History of Medicine1994Cited by: 10

    This paper examines some of the major developments in the field of anthropometric history since the end of the 1970s. The first two sections of the paper consider the conceptual basis of anthropometric history and the relationship between height and the standard of living. Sections 3-7 discuss the contributions made by anthropometric historians to our understanding of the social and economic history of the United States, the history of American s…

  • The Demographic Impact of the First World War: An Anthropometric Perspective

    Brice Harris, Bernard HarrisARTICLESocial History of Medicine1993Cited by: 2

    During the 1970s and 1980s Jay Winter published a series of highly influential articles on the demographic impact of the First World War, culminating in his study of The Great War and the British People in 1986. Winter argued that the war led to a dramatic improvement in average living standards, and that the survival chances of most sections of the civilian population improved more rapidly than they might have done if peace had been maintained. …

  • Poor Citizens: The State and the Poor in Twentieth-Century Britain

    Brice Harris, Bernard Harris et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1993

    Preface 1. Strategies of poverty 1900-14 2. Poverty and power 1914-39 3. Poverty and history 1939-64 4. Poverty and growth 1964-90 Glossary Bibliography Index

  • American Theatre

    Richard Moody, John Russell Brown et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1968

  • American Theatre

    Open AccessFrancis J Thompson, John Russell Brown et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1968

  • A Portrait of a Moor

    Open AccessBrice Harris, Bernard HarrisCHAPTERShakespeare Survey With Index 1-101958

    Recently, the Shakespeare Institute acquired a portrait of the Moorish ambassador to Elizabeth in 1600—a portrait which is of considerable interest to students of history, of art and of the theatre (Plate ). For the historian it gives character to an episode, nowhere fully recorded, in the diplomatic relations between England and Barbary. It forms, too, a handsome and out-of-the-common addition to the gallery of Tudor portraits. For those concern…