This is an automatically translated description

Over the past few centuries, we have moved from a world where disease, violence or hunger could strike anyone at any age to a world where, in many countries, food availability is more of a problem than its absence. Why have the causes of our deaths changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious diseases, and today the leading causes of death in industrialised countries are heart disease and stroke?

In his book, Professor Andrew Doyle, of Manchester University, takes an in-depth look at the profile of death throughout human history, looking at specific causes - from infectious to genetic diseases, from violence to diet.