Nearly every religion claims to be cleaner than all the others. This claim can’t be true for all religions. But is it true for any? And could it affect disease outcomes? This nice study suggests so: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez025.
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Thank you very much indeed for this reference, which I hadn't come across! In ch. 5 of my book I found that religion affects mortality where you can control contagion by individual action, but not where it's influenced more by public water supply (as with cholera).
Glad it was helpful. Lara also wrote more generally about differential maternal/infant health in different parts of London in a similar period, which did have more to do with public health interventions by the C20th, in Metropolitan Maternity.
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