Yi-Tang Lin

Statistics and the Language of Global Health (eBook, PDF)

Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108998161
• Artikelnr.: 70909430

Autorenporträt

Yi-Tang Lin is a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for 2021-22.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The call for a language of public health: Philanthropic
foundations, bacteriologists, and health administrators; 2. The language
and dialect of health science: Public health schools and their statistical
practices; 3. The language of health administrations: The League of Nations
Epidemiological Intelligence Service; 4. The language of policy-making:
Research and advocacy through health demonstrations; 5. Popularization at a
global scale: The WHO and the postwar health statistics reporting system;
6. The art of rhetoric: Statistical standards at work, from fieldwork to
world policy-making; 7. Another way of speaking? Public health statistics
in the People's Republic of China; Conclusion: Numbers, experts, and
policy-making.