04723nam 2200721Ia 450 991045403930332120200520144314.01-282-86314-297866128631410-7735-7247-3(CKB)1000000000522765(EBL)3331602(SSID)ssj0000277410(PQKBManifestationID)11213009(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277410(PQKBWorkID)10234170(PQKB)10590183(MiAaPQ)EBC3331602(CaPaEBR)407613(CaBNvSL)slc00204641(MiAaPQ)EBC3248756(Au-PeEL)EBL3331602(CaPaEBR)ebr10178251(CaONFJC)MIL286314(OCoLC)923230570(EXLCZ)99100000000052276520041008d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBody 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 sociologiquesMontréal Published for Fondation Mérieux by McGill-Queen's University Press = Publié pour Fondation mérieux par McGill-Queen's University Pressc20051 online resource (428 p.)Proceedings of conference held at Musée Claude-Bernard, in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France, in 2002.0-7735-2925-X 0-7735-2829-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiquesMedical statisticsHistoryCongressesEpidemiologyStatistical methodsHistoryCongressesMedical instruments and apparatusHistoryCongressesElectronic books.Medical statisticsHistoryEpidemiologyStatistical methodsHistoryMedical instruments and apparatusHistory610/.72/7Jorland Gérard267289Weisz George46896Opinel Annick897616Fondation Marcel Mérieux.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454039303321Body counts2005436UNINA