The Road to Medical Statistics

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1597-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

There has been a growing recognition of the importance of mathematical and statistical methods in the history of medicine, particularly in those areas where statistical methods are a sine qua non such as epidemiology and randomised clinical trials. Despite this expanding scholarly interest, the development of the mathematical and statistical technologies in the biological sciences has not been examined systematically. This collection of essays aims to provide a broader overview of this field, and to explore the use of these with the use of these quantitative technologies in medical and clinical cultures from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Magnello, Eileen

Hardy, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Eileen MAGNELLO and Anne HARDY: Preface

Philip KREAGER: Death and Method: The Rhetorical Space of Seventeenth-Century Vital Measurement

Andrea RUSNOCK: ‘The Merchant's Logick’: Numerical Debates over Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century England

Edward HIGGS: The Annual Report of the Registrar General, 1839-1920: A Textual History

John SENIOR: Metrological Awakenings: Rationalising the Body Electric in Nineteenth-Century Medicine

Eileen MAGNELLO: The Introduction of Mathematical Statistics into Medical Research: The Roles of Karl Pearson, Major Greenwood and Austin Bradford Hill

J. ROSSER MATTHEWS: Almroth Wright, Vaccine Therapy and British Biometrics: Disciplinary Expertise versus Statistical Objectivity

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Hardy is Reader in the History of Modern Medicine. Her interests lie in the history of health and disease, and she is currently working on epidemiology and the salmonellas, 1890-1940.