Body Counts - Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives Historiques Et Sociologiques Sur La Quantification Médicale

How quantification arrived at its current dominant position in health care.

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Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel, and George Weisz

Summary

Culled from the proceedings of 'La quantification dans les sciences medicales et de la sante: perspective historique' held at the Musee Claude-Bernard in France in 2002, this title moves beyond the usual emphasis on public health and clinical medicine to include the central role of numbers in laboratory work and medical instrumentation.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinel, George Weisz
• Assisted by: Gerard Jorland (Editor), Annick Opinal (Editor), George Weisz (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2005
• EAN: 9780773529250
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-2925-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General