Shadows in the valley : a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916
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
Print Book, English, ©2010
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, ©2010