Shadows in the Valley : A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swedlund, Alan C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
History, 20th Century > New England.
History, 19th Century > New England.
Funeral Rites > history > New England.
Attitude to Death > New England.
Thanatology > New England.
Loss (Psychology) > Social aspects > New England > History.
Mortality > Social aspects > New England > History.
Death > Social aspects > New England > History.
Diseases > Social aspects > New England > History > 20th century.
Diseases > Social aspects > New England > History > 19th century.
New England > Statistics, Medical.
New England > Social conditions > 20th century.
New England > Social conditions > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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