Gorsky, Martin; Guntupalli, Aravinda; Harris, Bernard; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 12, pp. 1775-1783
This article contributes to the debate about using insurance records to reconstruct historical experiences of sickness during the Western mortality transition. Critics regard these sources as problematic as they measure morbidity indirectly through absences from work; these might be determined...