Vital Accounts : Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France / Andrea A. Rusnock.
Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arith...
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Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in the history of medicine.
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