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The province of affliction : illness and the making of early New England / Ben Mutschler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mutschler, Ben, author.
- Series:
- American beginnings, 1500-1900.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- American beginnings, 1500-1900
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases--Social aspects--New England--History--18th century.
- Diseases.
- Diseases--Social aspects--New England--History--19th century.
- Public health--New England--History--18th century.
- Public health.
- Public health--New England--History--19th century.
- New England--History--18th century.
- New England.
- New England--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics all too familiar. In 'The Province of Affliction', Ben Mutschler explores the surprising roles that illness played in shaping the foundations of New England society and government from the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century. Considered healthier than residents in many other regions of early America, and yet still riddled with disease, New Englanders grappled steadily with what could be expected of the sick and what allowances made to them and their providers.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9780226714561
- 022671456X
- OCLC:
- 1181849360
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