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Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Autor Andrea A. Rusnock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 feb 2009
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 arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth-century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses. Andrea A. Rusnock presents a social history of quantification that highlights the development of numerical tables, influential and enduring scientific instruments designed to evaluate smallpox inoculation, to link weather and disease to compare infant and maternal mortality rates, to identify changes in disease patterns and to challenge prevailing views about the decline of European population. By focusing on the most important eighteenth century controversies over health and population, Rusnock shows how vital accounts - the numbers of births and deaths - became the measure of public health and welfare.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521101233
ISBN-10: 0521101239
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 53 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. A new science: political arithmetic; Part I. Smallpox Inoculation and Medical Arithmetic: 2. A measure of safety: English debates over inoculation in the 1720s; 3. The limits of calculation: French debates over inoculation in the 1760s; 4. Charitable calculations: English debates over the inoculation of the urban poor, 1750–1800; Part II. Medical Arithmetic and Environmental Medicine: 5. Medical meteorology: accounting for the weather and disease; 6. Interrogating death: disease, mortality and environment; Part III. Political Arithmetic: 7. Count, measure, compare: the depopulation debates; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

"An excellent overview of a vital, though hitherto neglected , dimension of eighteenth-century history." The International History Review
"the wide range of issues raised by the author, and her ability to contextualize the complex web of interactions among science, institutions and social processes and to refute simplistic and essentialist views on 'the power of numbers', makes this a valuable contribution on the genesis of social statistics that any historian will benefit from reading." - Paul-Andre Rosental
"Rusnock's book will be of value to historians of medicine and quantification as well as to those interested in the sociology of knowledge and the history of sceince and its social context more generally. Of particular interest is her comparative focus, which allows the book to escape an oversimplified view that sees scientific innovations such as quantification succeeding largely because they were 'right'. The different trajectory of medical quantification in these two countires--so well described by Rusnock--is a powerful argument in favor of a more complex and multitextured explanation, one that can take into account the important differences in the communities of researchers who first used numbers to measure the health and vitality of populations." - Joshua Cole, University of Michigan

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Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.