Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives Historiques Et Sociologiques Sur la Quantification Médicale

Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives Historiques Et Sociologiques Sur la Quantification Médicale
ISBN-10
0773528296
ISBN-13
9780773528291
Series
Body Counts
Category
Electronic books
Pages
429
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Fondation Marcel Mérieux

Description

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 mdicales et de la sant: perspective historique" held at the Muse 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. Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Lwy (INSERM, CNRS, 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, Paris), and Ulrich Trhler (Institut fr Geschichte der Medizin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt).

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