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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Ann G. Carmichael
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Special Section: Complexities of Nineteenth-Century Cause-of-Death Nomenclatures
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Social Science History , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , Fall 2009 , pp. 293 - 305
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2009 

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