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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-08-31
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 155849720X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
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How does the experience of sickness, death, and loss change over time? We know that the incidence and virulence of particular diseases have varied from one period to another, as has their medical treatment. But 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?
In Shadows in the Valley, Alan Swedlund addresses these questions by closely examining 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. This was a time when most Americans lived in rural areas or small towns rather than large cities. It was also a time when a wide range of healing practices was available to the American public, and when the modern form of Western medi Download Shadows in the Valley for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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