The Impact of Female Labour Conditions on Infant Mortality: A Case Study of the Parishes of Nedertornea and Jokkmokk, 1800-96
SUMMARY In much research into trends in infant mortality in nineteenth-century Europe explanations have recently tended to be focused on changes in infant feeding practices and alterations to the sexual division of labour. Rarely has this research been conducted at the level of individual families w...
| Published in: | Social History of Medicine |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1988
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| Online Access: | http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/1/3/329 https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/1.3.329 |