Paradise lost: Age-dependent mortality of American communes, 1609-1965

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1193-1222

  Kitts, James A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 67749137509     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0173     Document Type: Article

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