The Sickness Experience of the Josselins' Children

Bibliographic Data

ID6080190
AuthorsJ C Riley (0000-0002-3585-7544, Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume14
Issue4
Pages347-363
Publication date1989-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908901400404
PMID11622529
OpenAlexW2115549975
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

For some forty years the seventeenth-century clergyman and farmer Ralph Josselin kept a diary. Among the events that he recorded regularly were the occasions when one or another of his ten children fell ill. Combining the experience of the ten children—136 disease and injury episodes within 148.3 years at risk—shows a distinctive pattern of morbidity risk from birth to age twenty. Josselin's diary allows consideration of some other issues in childhood health, including maladies linked to immune system damage and the weanling crisis. The health experience of the Josselins' children is also compared on some points to that of children living in Third-World areas in recent decades

Disease · Fell · Geography · Sociology · Demography · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · Medicine · Pediatrics

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