01280nam a2200253Ia 4500 CTU_159904 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 99.99 614.4241 R949 Rusnock, Andrea Alice Vital accounts : Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France Andrea A. Rusnock Cambridge,New York Cambridge University Press 2002 This study examines the pre-history of statistics in eighteenth-century England and France, before state governments and other institutions began to collect statistical data on a regular basis. Eighteenth-century political and medical arithmeticians developed a variety of useful techniques to measure health and population. This book highlights the history of numerical tables, as new scientific instruments, and explains how they were used to evaluate smallpox inoculations, and the health and size of populations Mortality,Mortality,Lịch sử dịch tễ học History,History 18th century,18th century England,France Nguyên Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ