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Medical History

Body Counts

Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives//Perspectives historiques et sociologiques sur la quantification médicale

by (author) Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinel & George Weisz

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2005
Category
History, Public Health
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773528291
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773529250
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $39.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572478
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $110.00

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Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Löwy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Harry M. Marks (Johns Hopkins University), Lion Murard (INSERM, CNRS, Paris), Mark Parascandola (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland), Theodore M. Porter (University of California at Los Angeles), Andrea Rusnock (University of Rhode Island), Christiane Sinding (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), and Ulrich Tröhler (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität).

About the authors

École des hautes etudes sciences sociales, Paris

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Institut Pasteur, Paris

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George Weisz is a professor of social studies and medicine and Cotton-Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine at McGill University in Quebec. He is author and editor of several books, including Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, and co-editor of Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950 and Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives.

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