[The road to medical statistics] / / [by Eileen Magnello and Anne Hardy].
There has been a growing recognition of the importance of mathematical and statistical methods in the history of medicine, particularly in those areas where statistical methods are a sine qua non such as epidemiology and randomised clinical trials. Despite this expanding scholarly interest, the deve...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica ; 67 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2002] |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Death and Method: The Rhetorical Space of Seventeenth Century Vital Measurement / Philip Kreager
- ‘The Merchant’s Logick’: Numerical Debates over Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century England / Andrea Rusnock
- The Annual Report of the Registrar General, 1839–1920: A Textual History / Edward Higgs
- Metrological Awakenings: Rationalising the Body Electric in Nineteenth Century Medicine / John Senior
- The Introduction of Mathematical Statistics into Medical Research: The Roles of Karl Pearson, Major Greenwood and Austin Bradford Hill / Eileen Magnello
- Almroth Wright, Vaccine Therapy, and British Biometrics: Disciplinary Expertise versus Statistical Objectivity / J. Rosser Matthews
- Index / Eileen Magnello and Anne Hardy.