Fatal Years (eBook)

Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Samuel H. Preston, Michael R. Haines (Autoren)

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2014
290 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6189-7 (ISBN)

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Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five. Preston and Haines challenge accepted opinion to show that losses in privileged social groups were as appalling as those among lower classes. Improvements came only with better knowledge about infectious diseases and greater public efforts to limit their spread. The authors look at a wide range of topics, including differences in mortality in urban versus rural areas and the differences in child mortality among various immigration groups. "Fatal Years is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of child mortality in the United States at the turn of the century. The new data and its analysis force everyone to reconsider previous work and statements about U.S. mortality in that period. The book will quickly become a standard in the field."--Maris A. Vinovskis, University of MichiganOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 1900 United States Census • 1910 United States Census • 1950 United States Census • American Statistical Association • Atkinson index • Attributable risk • Backwardness • Birth Control • Breastfeeding • breast milk • Census • chickenpox • Childbirth • Child Mortality • Civilian Labor Force • Claudia Goldin • Demographic History • Demography • Demography of the United States • developed country • Developing Country • diphtheria • Disease • Drinking Water • Dummy variable (statistics) • Economic Inequality • estimation • Eugenics • European Russia • extreme poverty • family income • famine • flexner report • foreign born • Gruel • head of household • homeopathy • How the Other Half Lives • ideal type • Immigration to the United States • income • Income in the United States • Infant • Infant Mortality • Irving Fisher • Jane Addams • laborer • Latin America • Life Expectancy • Life Table • Literacy • Live birth (human) • Longevity • Luther Emmett Holt • Malaria • Miasma theory • middle class • mortality rate • Moses Abramovitz • National Bureau of Economic Research • No poverty • occupational inequality • Oscar Handlin • overcrowding • pasteurization • Pediatrics • Pellagra • Physician • Population • Prevalence • Profession • quinine • Racism • residence • rubella • Rural Area • Rural district • Rural housing • Rurality • scarlet fever • Sex Ratio • shortage • Slum • Smallpox vaccine • Social Class • Social class in the United States • standard of living • sulfuric acid • Syphilis • The Boarder • The Other Hand • The Physician • The School and Society • Thomas McKeown (physician) • typhoid fever • Unemployment • urbanization • Vital statistics (government records) • warfare • welfare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6189-6 / 1400861896
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6189-7 / 9781400861897