The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality : : The European Experience: 1750-1990.

• Author: Corsini, Carlo A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Viazzo, Pier Paolo.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Recent Advances and Some Open Questions in the Long-term Study of Infant and Child Mortality -- 1. Infant Health and Infant Mortality in Europe: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future -- 2. Assessing Change in Historical Contexts: Childhood Mortality Patterns in Spain during the Demographic Transition -- 3. Differential Mortality Patterns among Infants and Other Young Children: The Experience of England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Gender Mortality Differences from Birth to Puberty, 1887-1940 -- 5. Infant Mortality in French Cities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 6. Urbanization, Infant Mortality and Public Health in Imperial Germany -- 7. Locality or Class? Spatial and Social Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in England and Wales, 1895-1911 -- 8. Infant Mortality in Greece, 1859-1959: Problems and Research Perspectives -- 9. Life Histories of Lone Parents and Illegitimate Children in Nineteenth-Century Sweden -- 10. Mortality among Illegitimate Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century The Hague -- 11. Childhood Mortality in High-Risk Groups: Some Methodological Reflections Based on French Experience -- 12. A Special Case of Decline: Levels and Trends of Infant Mortality at Florence's Foundling Hospital, 1750-1950 -- Index.