Shadows in the Valley by Alan C Swedlund

Shadows in the Valley by Alan C Swedlund

What was it like for the individuals who suffered and died from those illnesses, for the health practitioners and institutions that attended to them, and for the families who buried and mourned them? This title addresses these questions by examining the history of mortality in several small communities in western Massachusetts.

"Shadows in the Valley offers a sensitive, poignant look at suffering, disease, and death in the lives of residents of western Massachusetts, just as authorities were beginning to identify disease pathogens, improve water and food supplies, and prevent childhood epidemics... It is both modest and sweeping in scope, because the stories are carefully woven into a social history of larger changes occurring in American medicine and society." - Lynn M. Morgan, author of Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica"

ALAN SWEDLUND is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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ISBN 13	9781558497207
ISBN 10	155849720X
Titel	Shadows in the Valley
Autor	Swedlund Alan
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Massachusetts Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-04-01
Seitenanzahl	272
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