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How our days became numbered : risk and the rise of the statistical individual / Dan Bouk.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouk, Dan, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life insurance--United States--History.
- Life insurance.
- Insurance companies--Social aspects.
- Insurance companies.
- Insurance--Statistical methods.
- History.
- United States.
- Insurance--Statistical methods--History.
- Insurance.
- Insurance companies--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 294 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Classing
- Fatalizing
- Writing
- Smoothing
- A modern conception of death
- Valuing lives, in four movements
- Failing the future
- Conclusion: Numbering in layers
- Epilogue: The cards we carry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed May 5, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bouk, Daniel B., 1980- author. How our days became numbered
- ISBN:
- 9780226259208
- 022625920X
- Publisher Number:
- 99963918546
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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