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.

In an invigorating comparative and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the role of different types of medical counting, this wide-ranging bilingual volume takes us from the mortality tables of the eighteenth century to the movement for evidence-based medicine in our own day. Culled from the proceed...

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