Boletin de la Asociacion de Demografia Historica最新文献

The authors report on a plan developed in Spain to compile a standard terminology of causes of death for use in historical demographic studies. "In the first phase a thesaurus will be created from the data available in the records. The second stage includes the creation of a terminological glossary. Finally...the change of information to standard nomenclatures [is proposed]." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

"This work reminds us [of] the need to approach the study of mortality as a whole and insists upon the many factors having an influence upon its etiology. At the same time it suggests that more attention should be paid to the subjects of morbidity and the synchronical connections between illnesses.... The paper displays some results...based upon the death registries of Geneva [Switzerland] (1685-1844). Using the data for the years 1740-1759, the work studies the deaths and main death causes from the viewpoint of their gradual development [over] time, their periodicity and their distribution by age groups." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

"This work places the production of death causes statistics and its problems in the 19th century, with the appearance of modern statistics....[The author discusses ways] to make the most of the information being analyzed (studies of multiple causes), to improve the quality of medical performance, and to eliminate the variability produced by the codification process." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

"This work sketches the main stages in the evolution of medical thought and their effect upon the creation of systems intended to classify illness....[It analyzes] the influence of the three stages of the creation of the laboratory medicine in the 19th century....Lastly, it makes a proposal and a plan for a retrospective terminological glossary that should include the nosological lexicon and death causes by means of the integration of the existing empirical material." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

"The framework of this contribution is the nexus between scientific and popular knowledge, and their importance assessing diagnostical expressions when studying death causes in times prior to the setting of a standard for the definition of illness. By means of a particular example, the expression teething, we shall show some nuances concerning the loanwords and equivalences between popular and academic knowledge, and their deep, if sometimes hidden, influence upon the diagnostical expressions informing us about the death causes as shown in the records of life and death statistics." The geographical focus is on Spain. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

"Using sources such as parish registers, civil registers, records of the town hall, inquiries, [censuses] and list of inhabitants, we have been able to confirm the existence of four different stages in the demographic development of Plasencia [Spain]. The first one, between 1800 and 1815, is characterized by a scarce growing.... The second one, between 1816 and 1839, shows a certain increase which is restrained at the end of the 30s because of some epidemic illness (cholera and various fevers). The period between 1840 and 1871 is a stage of slow growing due to many subsistence crises. The fourth stage, 1872-1899, continues the same outline with a great rising of mortality, which does not prevent the rising of population in Plasencia caused by a high rate of inmigration." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

The author analyzes "methods of domestic organization in a hinterland area in Lisbon, [Portugal, particularly] in Oeiras, between 1730 and 1810. Results show the existence of two systems of domestic group organization: farmers and workers. The [farmers] set up a succession strategy associated with the defence of familiar heritage.... Workers consider that their organization strategy is based on both setting up new families and giving up any system of generation succession by which the principal aim is the perpetuation of the familiar heritage.... Both systems are the results of different economic and hierarchical positions in the Oeiras society." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE AND SPA)