Social Meanings of Mortality: The Language of Death and Disease in 19th Century Massachusetts
This dissertation investigates the emergence and development of cause-of-death registration in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. I examine the historical, demographic, sociopolitical, and theoretical conditions that gave rise to the first state-implemented cause-of-death registration system in the U...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/428 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1425&context=open_access_dissertations |