The vital life force in the body, supposedly able to be regulated by acupuncture. It corresponds roughly to the Greek pneuma, the Latin spiritus, and the ancient Indian prana. The concept of life-breath or vital energy was formulated as an indication of the awareness of man, originally directed externally toward nature or society but later turned inward to the self or life within. (From Comparison between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West, 15th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, August 26-September 3, 1990, Shizuoka, Japan, pp. ix-x)
--subdivision Casualties--Statistics under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Statistics; and subdivision Statistics, Vital under names of countries, cities, etc. and under ethnic groups for compilations of birth, marriage, and death statistics
--subdivision Casualties--Statistics under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Statistics; and subdivision Statistics, Vital under names of countries, cities, etc. and under ethnic groups for compilations of birth, marriage, and death statistics
Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth
Vital signs -- Textbooks : Vital sign measurement across the lifespan / Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, and Andy Tan ; 2nd Canadian edition H5P contributors, Kymberley Bontinen, Barbara Metcalf, Lee-Anne Stephen, Michelle Hughes, Margaret Verkuyl
Vital statistics -- Fees -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 : An abstract of the Act (made in anno vi°. & vii°. Gulielmi III. Regis) : for granting to His Majesty certain duties upon marriages, births & burials, and upon batchelours and widowers, for the term of five years ; as also the act for explaining and regulating several doubts, &c. in the late act upon vellum, &c
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Vital statistics -- History : Facts of life : the social construction of vital statistics, Ontario, 1869-1952 / George Emery
Vitalism -- psychology : The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature / edited by John A. McCarthy, Stephanie M. Hilger, Heather I. Sullivan, Nicholas Saul