Learning Hygiene: Mortality Patterns by Religion in the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1867-1916
The Don Army Territory in southern Russia over the period 1867-1916 offers a unique opportunity to follow mortality variations across religious denominations (Orthodox, Old Believers and Coreligionists, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews, Armenian-Gregorians, Buddhists, and Muslims), in a context of severe climatic conditions, urbanisation, and improvements in hygiene and medicine. Denominational groups were differentiated by ways of life, residential segmentation, hygiene practices, and medical knowledge. The most educated and urban denominations had the lowest mortality. Religions characterized mortality patterns, doing duty for non-existent or scarce physicians among the Orthodox, laying down rules of hygiene, and promoting doctrine on fertility and child care.
Date: 11 June 2015, 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speaker: Dr Noël Bonneuil (the French National Institute for Demographic Studies )
Organising department: Oxford Institute of Ageing
Organiser: Dr George W Leeson (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: administrator@ageing.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
Part of: Historical Demography – A Place in Modern Demography?
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Emilie Walton