1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004087100403321

Autore

Conlon, Pierre M.

Titolo

Le siècle des lumières : bibliographie chronologique / Pierre M. Conlon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève : Droz, 1983-

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 23 cm

Collana

Histoire des idées et critique littéraire ; 213

Disciplina

015.44

Locazione

DECSE

FLFBC

Collocazione

SE 016.08.09-

015.44 CON 1(1)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.: 1716-1722. - 1983 4.: 1737-1742



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782183303321

Autore

Jorland Gerard

Titolo

Body counts [[electronic resource] ] : medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / / edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz = La quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, : Published for Fondation Mérieux by McGill-Queen's University Press = Publié pour Fondation mérieux par McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86314-2

9786612863141

0-7735-7247-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JorlandGérard

WeiszGeorge

OpinelAnnick

Disciplina

610/.72/7

Soggetti

Medical statistics - History

Epidemiology - Statistical methods - History

Medical instruments and apparatus - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of conference held at Musée Claude-Bernard, in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France, in 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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 medecine : Le cas du diabete sucre""""8 ""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-determination des theories medicales par les statistiques: le cas Semmelweis""; ""11 Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950's""; ""PART FOUR: REDUCING UNCERTAINTY AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH""

""12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health""""13 La sante publique et ses instruments de mesure : Des baremes evaluatifs americains aux indices numeriques de la Societedes 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 contrarie de l'epidemiologie francaise dans la seconde moitiedu XX[sup(e)] siecle""

""16 L'inflechissement du travail politique autour des essais contres: L'epidemie de sida  la fin du XX[sup(e)] siecle""""PART FIVE: AFTERTHOUGHTS""; ""17 From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine""; ""18 Medical Quantification: Science, Regulation, and the State""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Löwy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Harry M. Marks (Johns Hopkins University), Lion Murard (INSERM, CNRS, Paris), Mark Parascandola (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland), Theodore M. Porter (University of California at Los Angeles), Andrea Rusnock (University of Rhode Island), Christiane Sinding (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), and Ulrich Tröhler (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783495603321

Titolo

Forest related perspectives for regional development in Europe / / Pentti Hyttinen [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2002

ISBN

1-280-46499-2

9786610464999

1-4175-7793-2

90-474-0116-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations

Collana

European Forest Institute research report ; ; 13

Altri autori (Persone)

HyttinenPentti

Disciplina

338.1/749/094

Soggetti

Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - Europe

Rural development - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-129).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Executive Summary; Introduction; Theories; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; References

Sommario/riassunto

Most of the less-favoured regions in Europe feature large areas of forestland. The FORWARD (Forest Resources for Work Opportunities and Regional Development) project was initiated to generate employment and income based on forest resources. This report presents the findings of the project.