Body counts : medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / edited by Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz = La quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jorland, Gérard, Author.

Contributor:

Jorland, Gérard.

Weisz, George.

Opinel, Annick.

Fondation Mérieux.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical statistics--History--Congresses.

Medical statistics.

Epidemiology--Statistical methods--History--Congresses.

Epidemiology.

Medical instruments and apparatus--History--Congresses.

Medical instruments and apparatus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Published for Fondation Merieux by McGill-Queen's University Press = Publie pour Fondation merieux par McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86314-2

9786612863141

0-7735-7247-3

OCLC:

923230570