Shadows in the valley
Subtitle: a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916
By: Alan C. Swedlund.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558497207; 9781558497191
Subjects: Diseases -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 19th century; Diseases -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 20th century; Death -- Social aspects -- New England -- History; Mortality -- Social aspects -- New England -- History; Loss (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- New England -- History; New England -- Social conditions -- 19th century; New England -- Social conditions -- 20th century; New England -- Statistics, Medical
Genres: Statistics, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Histories of illness and death; title: Life and death in Massachusetts, Deerfield, and the Connecticut River Valley, 1620-1840; title: Cholera infantum; title: The fevers of childhood; title: Dutiful daughters, pallid young women; title: Reproductive women, productive men; title: Surviving the odds : the "privilege" of old age; title: Managing disease in the long nineteenth century : numeracy and nosology, nature and nurture, 1840-1916; title: Bodies of evidence : death, loss, and the search for meaning; title: Appendixes: Data collection and evaluation; Appendix A: Infant mortality; Appendix B: Scarlet fever; Appendix C: Tuberculosis in young women; Appendix D: Old age.