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Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
Andrea A. Rusnock
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Description for Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
hardcover. Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 270 pages, 53 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3JF; HBTB; MBNS; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521803748
SKU
KSG0036072
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Reviews for Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
"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 ... Read more