Nature, nurture, and determinants of infant mortality: A case study from Massachusetts, 1830-1920

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-228

  Swedlund, Alan C ^a   Ball, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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