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Shadows in the valley : a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916 /
Alan Swedlund examines the history of mortality in several small communities in western Massachusetts from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century--from just before the acceptance of the germ theory of disease through the early days of public health reform in the United States. --from publ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Histories of illness and death
- Life and death in Massachusetts, Deerfield, and the Connecticut River Valley, 1620-1840
- Cholera infantum
- The fevers of childhood
- Dutiful daughters, pallid young women
- Reproductive women, productive men
- Surviving the odds : the "privilege" of old age
- Managing disease in the long nineteenth century : numeracy and nosology, nature and nurture, 1840-1916
- Bodies of evidence : death, loss, and the search for meaning
- Appendixes: Data collection and evaluation; A: Infant mortality; B: Scarlet fever; C: Tuberculosis in young women; D: Old age.