Infant and childhood death in the medical profession. Evidence from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Netherlands
Abstract This paper shows the effect that the medical expertise of medical practitioners had on the life chances of their children. We focus on infant and early childhood mortality. We reconstructed the life histories of the offspring of a group of around 2800 medical practitioners who were practicing in a high-mortality region in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1922, the period during which infant and child mortality in the Netherlands underwent the largest changes. The survival of their offspring is compared with that of a random sample of children from the Historical Sample of the Netherla... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Social Science History ; volume 47, issue 3, page 505-536 ; ISSN 0145-5532 1527-8034 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | Social Sciences (miscellaneous) / History |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26851186 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.7 |