Within the theoretical context of the health transition this paper analyses the recent increase in the life-expectancy of the Spanish population in order to ascertain which groups have made the most progress in terms of the struggle against death--mainly the case of the elderly and more particular...
back on the destruction of Native American peoples in the western hemisphere; the mass killing of Herreros in Namibia in 1904–1905; the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1922; the genocide in Cambodia at the hands of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979; Rwanda in 1994; and Bosnia in 1992. ...