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Author Swedlund, Alan C., author.

Title Shadows in the valley : a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916 / Alan C. Swedlund
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary Alan Swedlund examines the history of mortality in several small communities in western Massachusetts from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century--from just before the acceptance of the germ theory of disease through the early days of public health reform in the United States. --from publisher description
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject 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
Thanatology.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Thanatology
Attitude to Death
Funeral Rites -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Thanatology
Death -- Psychological aspects
Death -- Social aspects
Diseases -- Social aspects
Mortality -- Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT New England -- Social conditions -- 19th century
New England -- Social conditions -- 20th century
New England -- Statistics, Medical
New England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091260
New England
Subject New England
Genre/Form History
Medical statistics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009054454
ISBN 9781613760499
1613760493