Shadows in the valley : a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Swedlund, Alan C.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
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.
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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.