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  • STUDIES IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Quality of Life: Time and Place; Source, Data, and Surmise: Quality of Life in Historical Perspective; Sir William Petty (1623-1687); Assessment of National Progress in Public Health in England, 1832-1911; Estimating the Quality of Life for Children Around the World: NICQL '92; Part Two: Sixteenth Century; Quality of Prenatal Life: Teratology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Part Three: Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesHistorical notes on early study of the deaf; Childhood in late seventeenth century Dublin; The Quick and the Dead ... "" in late seventeenth century Dublin; Quality of living conditions in eighteenth century Dublin: Whitelaw's Survey, 1798; Part Four: Nineteenth Century; The Keys of Paradise:Godfrey's Cordial and Children in Victorian Britain; Estimating the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain, 1815-1914: An Empirical Consideration; Transported to Van Diemen's Land: The Boys of the Frances Charlotte (1832) and Lord Goderich (1841)
  • Children of the Mobility: A Street-level View of Early Victorian ChildrenLancashire Lasses and Yorkshire Lads: Childhood in the Early Nineteenth Century; Juvenile Delinquency and Education in a Victorian Factory Town; Part Five: Nineteenth Century Ireland; The Quality of Life in Victorian Ireland, 1831-1901; A Weighted Index of Quality of Life for Irish Children:1841, 1851, and 1861; Queen Victoria's Irish Soldiers: Quality of Life and Social Origins of the Thin Green Line; Part Six: Longitudinal Studies; Influences on Vocabulary Attainment: A Five-Year Prospective Study
  • Developmental Antecedents to Adolescents' Occupational Knowledge: a 17-Year Prospective StudyEarly Developmental Antecedents to High School Seniors' Self-reported Delinquency: A Prospective Study with Partial Replication; Part Seven: Disabilities; Down's (1866) Essay and its Socio-Medical Context; A Persistent Problem of Mental Health in Childhood-Delayed Mental Development: A Prospective Study.; Part Eight: Physical Development; A Replicated, Prospective Analysis of Quetelet's Index (kg./m2): Birth to Seven Years; Social Change, Height, and Body Mass in Victorian Youth, 1805-1914
  • Part Nine: EducationEducational Innovation in Cromwellian Ireland; two examples; Literacy and the Ecology of Childhood: Ireland 1841-1861; Index