TY  - BOOK
AU  - Viazzo,Pier Paolo
TI  - The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality: The European Experience: 1750-1990 
T2  - Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Book Archive pre-2000
SN  - 9789004638679
AV  - HB1323.I42 
U1  - 304.6 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill | Nijhoff
KW  - Children
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Europe
KW  - History. 
KW  - Demographic transition
KW  - Infants
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo -- 1 Infant Health and Infant Mortality in Europe: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future; Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant -- 2 Assessing Change in Historical Contexts: Childhood Mortality Patterns in Spain during the Demographic Transition; David S. Reher , Vicente Pérez-Moreda , and Josep Bernabeu-Mestre -- 3 Differential Mortality Patterns among Infants and Other Young Children: The Experience of England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century; Robert Woods , Naomi Williams , and Chris Galley -- 4 Gender Mortality Differences from Birth to Puberty in Italy, 1887-1940; Antonella Pinnelli and Paola Mancini -- 5 Infant Mortality in French Cities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Patrice Bourdelais and Michel Demonet -- 6 Urbanization, Infant Mortality and Public Health in Imperial Germany; Jörg Vögele -- 7 Locality or Class? Spatial and Social Differentials in infant and Child Mortality in England and Wales, 1895-1911; Alice Reid -- 8 Infant Mortality in Greece, 1859-1959: Problems and Research Perspectives; Violetta Hionidou -- 9 Life Histories of Lone Parents and Illegitimate Children in Nineteenth-Century Sweden; Anders Brändström -- 10 Mortality among Illegitimate Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century The Hague; Jan Kok , Frans Van Poppel , and Ellen Kruse -- 11 Childhood Mortality in High-Risk Groups: Some Methodological Reflections Based on French Experience; Catherine Rollet -- 12 A Special Case of Decline: Levels and Trends of Infant Mortality at Florences Foundling Hospital, 1750-1950; Pier Paolo Viazzo , Maria Bortolotto , and Andrea Zanotto -- Index
N2  - Of the many changes that have taken place in Western society during the past two centuries, few have been more significant than the steep fall in infant and child mortality. However, the timing and causes of the decline are still poorly understood. While some scholars attribute it to general improvements in living standards, others emphasize the role of social intervention and public health reforms. Written by specialists from several disciplinary fields, the twelve essays in this book break entirely new ground by providing a long-term perspective that challenges some deep-rooted ideas about the European experience of mortality decline and may help explain the forces and causal relationships behind the still tragic incidence of preventable infant and child deaths in many parts of the world today. This book will become a standard work for students and researchers in demography, social and economic history, population geography, and the history of medicine, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with current debates on the policies to be adopted to curb infant and child mortality in both developed and developing countries
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004638679
ER  -