Limit search to available items
Record 25 of 412
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
E-book
Author Cassedy, James H

Title American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860 / James H. Cassedy
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. America's Early Health Inventory -- 2. A Calculus of Medical Philanthropy -- 3. Quantification in Orthodox Medicine -- 4. Numerical Method and Rational Medicine -- 5. Alternative Medical Approaches -- 6. Quantitative Dimensions of Medical Sectarianism -- 7. Statistics of Mind and Madness -- 8. Vital Statistics and Public Health -- 9. Sanitary Fact-Finding in the City -- 10. The Computing Mind at Midcentury -- Notes -- Index
Analysis United States Medicine Statistics, 1800-1860
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
In English
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Medical statistics -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- United States -- Statistical services -- History -- 19th century
History, 19th Century
Statistics as Topic -- history
Medical statistics.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Statistical services.
Geneeskunde.
Statistiek.
SUBJECT United States -- Statistics, Medical -- History -- 19th century
United States
Subject United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674025601
9780674025608
9780674732216
0674732219