La «Mort de Vieillesse» dans les statistiques de mortalité (XVIIe siècle - XXIe siècle): une catégorie problématique (2018)
This paper examines the status of «death of old age» or equivalents in mortality statistics since their origins in the 17th century, and offers some insights on the history of a category which was used for a long time by lay people and physicians before it was challenged and marginalised (but not eradicated). This category, as well as many others in the history of health, is made of anthropological and cultural elements that can be highlighted through a longue durée analysis. A journey through statistical tables produced for more than 350 years indeed enables to concretely grasp the status, societal acceptance and use of the category «death of old age» in the modern and contemporary Western world.
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