Body counts : medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective /

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In an invigorating comparative and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the role of different types of medical counting, this wide-ranging bilingual volume takes us from the mortality tables of the eighteenth century to the movement for evidence-based medicine in our own day. Culled from the proceed...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Fondation Mérieux
Otros Autores: Jorland, Gérard, Weisz, George, Opinel, Annick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Montréal [Que.] : Published for Fondation Mérieux by McGill-Queen's University Press = Publié pour Fondation mérieux par McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Medical statistics > History > Congresses.
Epidemiology > Statistical methods > History > Congresses.
Medical instruments and apparatus > History > Congresses.
Statistique médicale > Histoire > Congrès.
Épidémiologie > Méthodes statistiques > Histoire > Congrès.
Médecine > Appareils et instruments > Histoire > Congrès.
MEDICAL > Biostatistics.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Epidemiology > Statistical methods.
Medical instruments and apparatus.
Medical statistics.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Who Counts?
  • PART ONE: MEDICAL ARITHMETIC
  • 2 Quantifying Experience and Beating Biases: A New Culture in Eighteenth-Century British Clinical Medicine
  • 3 When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation
  • 4 Quantifying Infant Mortality in England and France, 1750-1800
  • PART TWO: QUANTIFICATION AND INSTRUMENTATION
  • 5 Medical Statistics at the Paris School: What Was at Stake?
  • 6 Standardizing Body Temperature: Quantification in Hospitals and Daily Life, 1850-1900
  • 7 Les multiples usages de la quantification en médecine : Le cas du diabète sucré́ Measures, Instruments, Methods, and Results: Jozefa Joteyko on Social Reforms and Physiological Measures
  • 9 The Production of Biomedical Measures: Three Platforms for Quantifying Cancer Pathology
  • PART THREE: STATISTICS AND THE UNDERDETERMINATION OF THEORIES
  • 10 La sous-détermination des théories médicales par les statistiques: le cas Semmelweis
  • 11 Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950s
  • PART FOUR: REDUCING UNCERTAINTY AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
  • 12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health
  • 13 La santé publique et ses instruments de mesure : Des barèmes évaluatifs américains aux indices numériques de la Société des Nations, 1915-1955
  • 14 Statistical Theory Was Not the Reason That Randomization Was Used in the British Medical Research Council's Clinical Trial of Streptomycin for Pulmonary Tuberculosis
  • 15 Exigence scientifique et isolement institutionnel: L'essor contrarié de l'épidémiologie française dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle
  • 16 L'infléchissement du travail politique autour des essais contrôlés: L'épidémie de sida à la fin du XXe siècle
  • PART FIVE: AFTERTHOUGHTS
  • 17 From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine
  • 18 Medical Quantification: Science, Regulation, and the State
  • Index.

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