Life And Death During The Great DepressionDiane Swanbrow
On September 1st, we ran a story about the health benefits of a good recession. And we received several incredulous responses. Some listeners firmly believe that people eat and drink and smoke more when their finances are bleak. Now along comes another study of life and death during the grand...
As the Great Depression gripped the country in 1933, six deaths in one year caused a wave of indignation. Newspaper headlines such as “Legalized Murder,”“Widow Weeps as Mate Dies,”“Is It Worth It?” and “What a Price to Pay” reflected the controversy. Still, racing continued, and ...
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He was hungry and his clothes were ragged and he didn't have a job. He didn't think things were picking up. " 'I'm going to keep going,' I said. 'Someday I will be able to face people I used to beg for food.' If I didn't have hope I would have starved to death by th...
We conclude by urging scholars of mortality during this time period to focus on race whenever the data permit it. Keywords: Life expectancy, Lee-Carter model, Great Depression, mortality cycles Introduction During the Great Depression (1930–1933), both infant and non-infant death rates declined ...
When I was a practicing medical librarian, I read an extraordinary work of medical humanities journalism bySheri Fink, MD:Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. Dr. Fink won a Pulitzer Prize for her initial coverage of the disaster that played out in a New Orle...
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Walters Evan’s depiction of life and the people during the depression of the 1930s is abandoned, overwhelmed, and depressed. For instance, the person wearing the suit and a hat seems overwhelmed or exhausted. He is about to collapse from all that is going on in his life. The man seems...