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Victorian social medicine : the ideas and methods of William Farr / John M. Eyler.
Record no.:
3362
Author:
Eyler, John M.;
Publisher:
Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year:
1979.
Description:
x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Farr, William, 1807-1883.;
Public health - England - History - 19th century.;
Vital statistics - History - 19th century.;
Medical statistics - History - 19th century.;
Mortality - England - History - 19th century.;
Social medicine - History.;
England - Statistics, Vital - History - 19th century.;
England - Statistics, Medical - History - 19th century.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0801822467 9780801822469;
Abstract:
William Farr during the 1830s: the reform cause in medicine -- Statistics: a science of social reform -- General register office and England's mortality statistics -- Farr's biometer: the life table and its applications in medicine and economics -- Zymotic
theory and Farr's studies of epidemic diseases -- Well-being of urban man: slums, illness, and physical degeneration -- Farr, Florence Nightingale, and medical services -- Farr and the ledgers of death: assessments of his use of mortality data.
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