Vital Accounts - Quantifying Health Population in Eighteenth Century England France

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

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• Authors: Andrea A. Rusnock, Andrea A. (University of Rhode Island) Rusnock
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521803748
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80374-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General