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Vital accounts : = quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vital accounts :/ Andrea A. Rusnock.
Reminder of title:	quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France /
Author:	Rusnock, Andrea Alice,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Mortality - History - 18th century. - England -
Subject:	England - Church history - 17th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550041
ISBN:	9780511550041 (ebook)

Vital accounts : = quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France /
Rusnock, Andrea Alice,

Vital accounts :quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France /Andrea A. Rusnock. - 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in the history of medicine. - Cambridge studies in the history of medicine..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth-century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses. Andrea A. Rusnock presents a social history of quantification that highlights the development of numerical tables, influential and enduring scientific instruments designed to evaluate smallpox inoculation, to link weather and disease to compare infant and maternal mortality rates, to identify changes in disease patterns and to challenge prevailing views about the decline of European population. By focusing on the most important eighteenth century controversies over health and population, Rusnock shows how vital accounts - the numbers of births and deaths - became the measure of public health and welfare.

ISBN: 9780511550041 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799602
Mortality
--History--England--18th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

571554
England
--Church history--17th century.

LC Class. No.: RA407.5.G7 / R87 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 614.4/241/09033

Vital accounts : = quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France /
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