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/dissertations/AAI3482583 |