Body Counts

Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives historiques et sociologiques sur la quantification médicale

George Weisz author Gerard Jorland author Annick Opinel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:16th May '05

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

ISBN: 9780773529250

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 640g

416 pages