BODY COUNTS by Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinel, George Weisz ( 9780773529250 )

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Title:

BODY COUNTS
MEDICAL QUANTIFICATION IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES//PERSPECTIVES HISTORIQUES ET SOCIOLOGIQUES SUR LA QUANTIFICATION MEDICALE

By:

Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinel, George Weisz

Format:

Paperback

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£31.00

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ISBN 10:

077352925X

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9780773529250

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Publisher:

MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 May, 2005

Pages:

416

Language:

English, French, Spanish

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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

Publication:

Canada

Imprint:

McGill-Queen's University Press

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