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LEADER: 01932nam a22003378a 4500
001 2009054454
003 DLC
005 20100107154847.0
008 100104s2010 mau bs s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009054454
020 $a9781558497207 (paper : alk. paper)
020 $a9781558497191 (library cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-usn--
050 00 $aRA418.3.N427$bS94 2010
082 00 $a614.4/273$222
100 1 $aSwedlund, Alan C.
245 10 $aShadows in the valley :$ba cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916 /$cAlan C. Swedlund.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$cc2010.
263 $a1004
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHistories 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.
650 0 $aDiseases$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aDiseases$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory.
650 0 $aMortality$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory.
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology)$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew England$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aNew England$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
651 0 $aNew England$vStatistics, Medical.