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Infant Mortality :

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Infant Mortality :

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a Continuing Social Problem.

Eilidh Garrett

Abingdon

Ashgate Publishing Ltd

2012

(312 pages)

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 1 Infant Mortality: A Social Problem?; PART I; 2 George Newman --; A Life in Public Health; 3 Newman's Infant Mortality as an Agenda for Research; PART II; 4 Place and Status as Determinants of Infant Mortality in England c. 1550-1837; 5 A Double Penalty? Infant Mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900; 6 Infant Mortality in Northamptonshire: A Vaccination Register Study; 7 Urban-rural Differences in Infant Mortality: A View from the Death Registers of Skye and Kilmarnock; 8 Diarrhoea: The Central Issue? 9 Infant Mortality, a Spatial Problem: Notting Dale Special Area in George Newman's London10 Health Visitors and 'Enlightened Motherhood'; PART III; 11 Infant Mortality and Social Progress in Britain, 1905-2005; 12 The Health of Infants at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century; 13 Conclusion: The Social Dimension of Infant Well-being; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading academics to evaluate Newman's critical contribution, to review current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality, especially in Britain, and to discuss modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. The volume argues that, even after 100 years of health programmes, scientific advances and medical interv.

Infants -- Mortality -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Infants -- Mortality -- Great Britain.

Newman, George, -- Sir, -- 1870-1948. -- Infant mortality.

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