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a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916

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University of Massachusetts Press
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Subjects
Diseases, History, Death, Mortality, Loss (Psychology), Social conditions, Medical Statistics, Thanatology, Attitude to Death, Funeral Rites, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Death, social aspects, Loss (psychology), New england, social conditions, New england, history

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Shadows in the valley: a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916
2010, University of Massachusetts Press
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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; Appendix A: Infant mortality; Appendix B: Scarlet fever; Appendix C: Tuberculosis in young women; Appendix D: Old age.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Statistics, Medical

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Dewey Decimal Class
614.4/273
Library of Congress
RA418.3.N427 S94 2010, RA418.3.N427S94 2010

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Pagination
xiii, 246p.

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OL24003122M
Internet Archive
shadowsinvalleyc0000swed
ISBN 13
9781558497207, 9781558497191
LCCN
2009054454
OCLC/WorldCat
286423296

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