Shadows in the Valley [Recurso electrónico] : A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916 / Alan C. Swedlund.
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TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 p. :) ill., mapsTipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9781613760499
- 1613760493
- 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
- 614.4/273
- RA418.3.N427 S94 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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