Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Seeds of a demographic science
  • Demographic aspects of early national expansionism
  • Medical geography of a growing nation
  • Medicine and the westward movement
  • The medical arithmetic of southern regional development
  • Manifest destiny and medicine
  • The medical demography of immigration and industrialism
  • Women in antebellum medical-demographic change
  • The length of lives in antebellum America.