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

• Pubblicazione: Montréal, : Published for Fondation Mérieux by McGill-Queen's University Press = Publié pour Fondation mérieux par McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.72/7
• Soggetto topico: Medical statistics - History; Epidemiology - Statistical methods - History; Medical instruments and apparatus - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JorlandGérard WeiszGeorge OpinelAnnick
• 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""
• Altri titoli varianti: Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques
• Titolo autorizzato: Body counts
• ISBN: 1-282-86314-2; 9786612863141; 0-7735-7247-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454039303321
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