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Body CountsMedical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives historiques et sociologiques sur la quantification médicale |
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How quantification arrived at its current dominant position in health care.
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.
Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Löwy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, 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, EHESS, Paris), and Ulrich Tröhler (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität).
Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Löwy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, 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, EHESS, Paris), and Ulrich Tröhler (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität).
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416 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773529250
May 2005
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
'Body Counts is a valuable addition to the small but growing literature on the history of quantification in medicine…the essays are consistently well written and of considerable intellectual caliber." Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Gérard Jorland is director of research, Centre de recherches historiques, École des hautes etudes sciences sociales, Paris.
Annick Opinel, formerly of the Fondation Mérieux, is head of the Centre de recherches historiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris.
George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.
Annick Opinel, formerly of the Fondation Mérieux, is head of the Centre de recherches historiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris.
George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.
Contributors ix
1 Introduction: Who Counts?
G?rard Jorland and George Weisz 3
PART ONE: MEDICAL ARITHMETIC
2 Quantifying Experience and Beating Biases: A New Culture in Eighteenth-Century British Clinical Medicine Ulrich Tr?hler 19
3 When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation
Harry M. Marks 51
4 Quantifying Infant Mortality in England and France, 1750?1800
Andrea Rusnock 65
PART TWO: QUANTIFICATION AND INSTRUMENTATION
5 Medical Statistics at the Paris School: What Was at Stake?
Ann F. La Berge 89
6 Standardizing Body Temperature: Quantification in Hospitals and Daily Life, 1850?1900
Volker Hess 109
7 Les multiples usages de la quantification en medicine: Le cas du diab?te sucr?
Christiane Sinding 127
8 ?Measures, Instruments, Methods, and Results?: Jozefa Joteyko on Social Reforms and Physiological Measures Ilana L?wy 145
9 The Production of Biomedical Measures: Three Platforms for Quantifying Cancer Pathology
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio 173
PART THREE: STATISTICS AND THE UNDERDETERMINATION OF THEORIES
10 La sous-d?termination des th?ories m?dicales par les statistiques: le cas Semmelweis
G?rard Jorland 205
11 Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950s
Mark Parascandola 226
PART FOUR REDUCING UNCERTAINTY AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health
Michael Donnelly 251
13 La sant? publique et ses instruments de mesure :Des bar?mes ?valuatifs am?ricains aux indices num?riques de la Soci?t? des Nations, 1915?1955
Lion Murard 266
14 Statistical Theory Was Not the Reason That Randomization Was Used in the British Medical Research Council?s Clinical Trial of Streptomycin for Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Iain Chalmers 309
15 Exigence scientifique et isolement institutionnel : L?essor contrari? de l??pid?miologie fran?aise dans la seconde moiti? du XXe si?cle
Luc Berlivet 335
16 L?infl?chissement du travail politique autour des essais contr?l?s : L??pid?mie de sida ? la fin du XXe si?cle Nicolas Dodier 359
PART FIVE AFTERTHOUGHTS
17 From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine
George Weisz 377
18 Medical Quantification: Science, Regulation, and the State
Theodore M. Porter 394
Index 403
1 Introduction: Who Counts?
G?rard Jorland and George Weisz 3
PART ONE: MEDICAL ARITHMETIC
2 Quantifying Experience and Beating Biases: A New Culture in Eighteenth-Century British Clinical Medicine Ulrich Tr?hler 19
3 When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation
Harry M. Marks 51
4 Quantifying Infant Mortality in England and France, 1750?1800
Andrea Rusnock 65
PART TWO: QUANTIFICATION AND INSTRUMENTATION
5 Medical Statistics at the Paris School: What Was at Stake?
Ann F. La Berge 89
6 Standardizing Body Temperature: Quantification in Hospitals and Daily Life, 1850?1900
Volker Hess 109
7 Les multiples usages de la quantification en medicine: Le cas du diab?te sucr?
Christiane Sinding 127
8 ?Measures, Instruments, Methods, and Results?: Jozefa Joteyko on Social Reforms and Physiological Measures Ilana L?wy 145
9 The Production of Biomedical Measures: Three Platforms for Quantifying Cancer Pathology
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio 173
PART THREE: STATISTICS AND THE UNDERDETERMINATION OF THEORIES
10 La sous-d?termination des th?ories m?dicales par les statistiques: le cas Semmelweis
G?rard Jorland 205
11 Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950s
Mark Parascandola 226
PART FOUR REDUCING UNCERTAINTY AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health
Michael Donnelly 251
13 La sant? publique et ses instruments de mesure :Des bar?mes ?valuatifs am?ricains aux indices num?riques de la Soci?t? des Nations, 1915?1955
Lion Murard 266
14 Statistical Theory Was Not the Reason That Randomization Was Used in the British Medical Research Council?s Clinical Trial of Streptomycin for Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Iain Chalmers 309
15 Exigence scientifique et isolement institutionnel : L?essor contrari? de l??pid?miologie fran?aise dans la seconde moiti? du XXe si?cle
Luc Berlivet 335
16 L?infl?chissement du travail politique autour des essais contr?l?s : L??pid?mie de sida ? la fin du XXe si?cle Nicolas Dodier 359
PART FIVE AFTERTHOUGHTS
17 From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine
George Weisz 377
18 Medical Quantification: Science, Regulation, and the State
Theodore M. Porter 394
Index 403
