Infant and Child Mortality in the Past

, by Bideau, Alain; Desjardins, Bertrand; Brignoli

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ISBN: 9780198289951 | 0198289952
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Copyright: 4/30/1998

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This volume examines the trends of early-age mortality across time and space and the methodological and theoretical problems inherent in such studies. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions from demography, biology, medicine, and economic and social history. The geographical range encompasses Europe, North America, Japan, and India.

List of Figures

(4)

List of Tables

xiii

(4)

List of Contributors

xvii

Introduction

(6)

M. Livi Bacci

PART I: STATE OF KNOWLEDGE (EUROPE)

(84)

1 Infant and Child Mortality in Italy, Eighteenth to Twentieth Century: Long-Term Trends and Territorial Differences

(15)

L. Del Panta

2 Child Mortality in Francophone Europe: State of Knowledge

(16)

A. Perrenoud

3 The Fight Against Infant Mortality in the Past: An International Comparison

(23)

C. Rollet

4 Alpine Patterns of Infant Mortality in Perspective

(13)

P. P. Viazzo

5 Infant Mortality in Britain: A Survey of Current Knowledge on Historical Trends and Variations

(17)

R. Woods

PART II: STATE OF KNOWLEDGE (AMERICA AND ASIA)

(66)

6 Infant and Child Mortality in the United States and Canada

(18)

G. Alter

7 Infant and Child Mortality in the Indian Subcontinent, 1881-1947

109

(26)

T. Dyson

8 Infant Mortality in Pre-transition Japan: Levels and Trends

135

(22)

O. Saito

Part III: Demographical, Ecological, Biological, and Epidemiological Variables Associated with Infant and Child Mortality

157

(88)

9 Month of Birth as a Factor in Children's Survival

157

(17)

M. Breschi

M. Livi Bacci

10 Family Formation and Infant Mortality in New France

174

(14)

B. Desjardins

11 For a History of Prematurity

188

(15)

J. Dupaquier

12 Endogenous Mortality in New France: At the Crossroads of Natural and Social Selection

203

(13)

R. Lalou

13 Infant Vulnerability in Three Cultural Settings in Montreal, 1880

216

(29)

P. Thornton

S. Olson

Part IV: Social Variables Associated with Infant and Child Mortality

245

(56)

14 The Death of Foundlings: A Tragedy in Two Acts

245

(17)

J.-P. Bardet

C. Dufour

J. Renard

15 Infant Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada

262

(14)

M. McInnis

16 Differential Infant and Child Mortality in the Netherlands, 1812-1912: First Results of the Historical Sample of the Population of the Netherlands

276

(25)

F. van Poppel

K. Mandemakers

Index

301

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