Body counts : medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz = La quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques.

Proceedings of conference held at Musée Claude-Bernard, in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France, in 2002.

Text in English and French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Who Counts? -- PART ONE: MEDICAL ARITHMETIC -- 2 Quantifying Experience and Beating Biases: A New Culture in Eighteenth-Century British Clinical Medicine -- 3 When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation -- 4 Quantifying Infant Mortality in England and France, 1750-1800 -- PART TWO: QUANTIFICATION AND INSTRUMENTATION -- 5 Medical Statistics at the Paris School: What Was at Stake? -- 6 Standardizing Body Temperature: Quantification in Hospitals and Daily Life, 1850-1900

7 Les multiples usages de la quantification en médecine : Le cas du diabète sucré́ Measures, Instruments, Methods, and Results: Jozefa Joteyko on Social Reforms and Physiological Measures -- 9 The Production of Biomedical Measures: Three Platforms for Quantifying Cancer Pathology -- PART THREE: STATISTICS AND THE UNDERDETERMINATION OF THEORIES -- 10 La sous-détermination des théories médicales par les statistiques: le cas Semmelweis -- 11 Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950s -- PART FOUR: REDUCING UNCERTAINTY AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH

12 William Farr and Quantification in Nineteenth-Century English Public Health -- 13 La santé publique et ses instruments de mesure : Des barèmes évaluatifs américains aux indices numériques de la Société des Nations, 1915-1955 -- 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 -- 15 Exigence scientifique et isolement institutionnel: L'essor contrarié de l'épidémiologie française dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle

16 L'infléchissement du travail politique autour des essais contrôlés: L'épidémie de sida à la fin du XXe siècle -- PART FIVE: AFTERTHOUGHTS -- 17 From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine -- 18 Medical Quantification: Science, Regulation, and the State -- Index.

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.

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