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Peer reviewedBrumberg, Joan Jacobs – Child Development, 1982
Guided by a set of assumptions drawn from the fields of anthropology, history, sociology of medicine, and human development, this study provides a historical description and analysis of chlorosis, a disease linked solely to female adolescence in the period from 1870 to 1920. (MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anemia, Cultural Influences, Disease Incidence
