The province of affliction

illness and the making of early New England

Verfasser / Beitragende:
Ben Mutschler
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020
Beschreibung:
368 pages ; cm
Format:
Buch
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505 0 |a Overviews. A tour of the province: October 18, 1769 ; Illness in the "social credit" and "money" economies of eighteenth-century New England -- Competency. Family competency: scenes from the life course of illness ; Household competency: work, responsibility, and belonging -- Dependency. Smallpox, public health, and town governance ; The domestic costs of war: wartime afflictions -- Agency. Colonial pensioners, the revolutionary invalid corps, and the advent of "decisive disability" ; State paupers and patients -- Epilogue 
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