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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| Other title: | Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques. La quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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| Summary: | 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 proceedings of La quantification dans les sciences médicales et de la santé: perspective historique held at the Musée Claude-Bernard in France in 2002, Body Counts moves beyond the usual emphasis on public health and clinical medicine to include the central role of numbers in laboratory work and medical instrumentation. Body Counts provides an innovative, historical, and sociological account of the functions of quantification. |
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| Item Description: | Proceedings of conference held at Musée Claude-Bernard, in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France, in 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 417 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773572478 0773572473 1282863142 9781282863149 |
| Language: | Text in English and French. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |