Andrea A. Rusnock, Rusnock Andrea a.

Vital Accounts

Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521101233
• ISBN-10: 0521101239
• Artikelnr.: 25616952

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A new science: political arithmetic
Part I. Smallpox Inoculation and Medical Arithmetic: 2. A measure of safety: English debates over inoculation in the 1720s
3. The limits of calculation: French debates over inoculation in the 1760s
4. Charitable calculations: English debates over the inoculation of the urban poor, 1750-1800
Part II. Medical Arithmetic and Environmental Medicine: 5. Medical meteorology: accounting for the weather and disease
6. Interrogating death: disease, mortality and environment
Part III. Political Arithmetic: 7. Count, measure, compare: the depopulation debates
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.