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8. Vital Statistics and Public Health

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American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800–1860

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Frontmatter i
Preface vii
Contents xi
1. America's Early Health Inventory 1
2. A Calculus of Medical Philanthropy 25
3. Quantification in Orthodox Medicine 52
4. Numerical Method and Rational Medicine 68
5. Alternative Medical Approaches 92
6. Quantitative Dimensions of Medical Sectarianism 120
7. Statistics of Mind and Madness 146
8. Vital Statistics and Public Health 178
9. Sanitary Fact-Finding in the City 207
10. The Computing Mind at Midcentury 230
Notes 241
Index 287

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Preface vii
Contents xi
1. America's Early Health Inventory 1
2. A Calculus of Medical Philanthropy 25
3. Quantification in Orthodox Medicine 52
4. Numerical Method and Rational Medicine 68
5. Alternative Medical Approaches 92
6. Quantitative Dimensions of Medical Sectarianism 120
7. Statistics of Mind and Madness 146
8. Vital Statistics and Public Health 178
9. Sanitary Fact-Finding in the City 207
10. The Computing Mind at Midcentury 230
Notes 241
Index 287

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