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說明 | 1 online resource (xiii, 246 p.) : ill., maps |
附註 | 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: Oldage |
| Description based on print version record |
主題 | 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 |
ISBN/ISSN | 9781613760499 (electronic bk.) |
| 1613760493 (electronic bk.) |
| 9781558497207 (pbk.) |
| 9781558497191 (hbk.) |
| 155849720X (pbk.) |
| 1558497196 (hbk.) |