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.