The province of affliction: illness and the making of early New England

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Overviews -- 1. A Tour of the Province: October 18, 1769 -- 2. Illness in the "Social Credit" and "Money" Economies of Eighteenth- Century New England -- Competency -- 3. Family Competency: Scenes from the Life Course of Illness -- 4. Household Competency: Work, Responsibility, and Belonging -- Dependency -- 5. Smallpox, Public Health, and Town Governance -- 6. The Domestic Costs of War: Wartime Afflictions -- Agency -- 7. Colonial Pensioners, the Revolutionary Invalid Corps, and the Advent of "Decisive Disability" -- 8. State Paupers and Patients -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Overviews -- 1. A Tour of the Province: October 18, 1769 -- 2. Illness in the "Social Credit" and "Money" Economies of Eighteenth- Century New England -- Competency -- 3. Family Competency: Scenes from the Life Course of Illness -- 4. Household Competency: Work, Responsibility, and Belonging -- Dependency -- 5. Smallpox, Public Health, and Town Governance -- 6. The Domestic Costs of War: Wartime Afflictions -- Agency -- 7. Colonial Pensioners, the Revolutionary Invalid Corps, and the Advent of "Decisive Disability" -- 8. State Paupers and Patients -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index