Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William FarrMedizinische Statistik / Geschichte (19. Jh.) / England. |
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... Victorian state medi- cine but also helped establish a basic methodology for such modern tech- nical fields as epidemiology , vital statistics , and demography . Seen in this light , Farr's career belongs to the history of science and ...
... Victorian state medi- cine but also helped establish a basic methodology for such modern tech- nical fields as epidemiology , vital statistics , and demography . Seen in this light , Farr's career belongs to the history of science and ...
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... Victorian medi- cine , social science , and social thought . My purpose is both to interpret Farr's work as a product of historical forces - scientific , medical , and so- cial - and to suggest how his writings illustrate the Victorian ...
... Victorian medi- cine , social science , and social thought . My purpose is both to interpret Farr's work as a product of historical forces - scientific , medical , and so- cial - and to suggest how his writings illustrate the Victorian ...
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... Victoria's reign began to shift . The decline of Victorian liberalism made solutions to social and economic problems such as Farr's seem increasingly antique . But for all that , the attitudes Farr represents ( may we call them Vic ...
... Victoria's reign began to shift . The decline of Victorian liberalism made solutions to social and economic problems such as Farr's seem increasingly antique . But for all that , the attitudes Farr represents ( may we call them Vic ...
Contents
A SCIENCE OF SOCIAL REFORM | 13 |
Farrs Political Liberalism | 23 |
Three THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE | 37 |
Copyright | |
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actuary Annual Report Army births British Medical British Medical Association calculated cause of death census cholera Committee contagion copy B.M. Add criticism Cullen death rates diagram disease theory early economic Edmonds Edwin Chadwick England's Mortality Statistics English Life Table epidemic Epidemic Diseases fact Farr's Biometer fever Florence Nightingale G.R.O. and England's healthy district high mortality hospital mortality human hygiene Ibid John Simon L. S. E. Farr Collection Lancet law of mortality letter to Florence letter to William living Lond Manchester Statistical Society medical officer medical profession Medicine methods metropolis mortality rates nosology Notes to Pages Nuisances Removal political Poor Law population density public health rate of mortality registrar Rumsey sickness smallpox Society of London Statistical Movement Statistical Society statisticians suggested Suppl Theory and Epidemic Thomas Wakley tion Trans Victorian Vital Statistics Well-Being of Urban William Farr zymotic diseases Zymotic Theory