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1 online resource (x, 417 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Proceedings of conference held at Musée Claude-Bernard, in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France, in 2002. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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"" |
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""7 Les multiples usages de la quantification en médecine : Le cas du diab�te sucré""""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-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"" |
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""12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health""""13 La santé publique et ses instruments de mesure : Des barÃ?mes évaluatifs américains aux indices numériques de la Société des Nations, 1915â€?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 franÃaise dans la seconde moitié du XX[sup(e)] siÃ?cle"" |
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""16 L'infléchissement du travail politique autour des essais contr�lés: L'épidémie de sida à la fin du XX[sup(e)] si�cle""""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"" |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Text in English and French. |
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Medical statistics -- History -- Congresses.
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Medical statistics. |
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History. |
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Epidemiology -- Statistical methods -- History -- Congresses.
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Epidemiology -- Statistical methods. |
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Medical instruments and apparatus -- History -- Congresses.
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Medical instruments and apparatus. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Jorland, Gérard.
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Weisz, George.
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Opinel, Annick.
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Fondation Mérieux.
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| Added Title |
Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques |
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Print version: Jorland, Gerard. Body Counts : Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives / La Quantification Medicale, Perspectives Historiques et Sociologiques. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2014 9780773528291 |
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9780773572478 (electronic book) |
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0773572473 (electronic book) |
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0773528296 (bound) |
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9780773528291 (bound) |
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077352925X (paperback) |
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9780773529250 (paperback) |
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