Chapter ID: CBB000048014

How numerical sociology began by counting suicides: From medical pathology to social pathology (1994)

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Description Discusses the “network of connections between the new medicine of the 19th century, and the birth and growth of numerical sociology.” Deals especially with the statistical study of suicide in France, and in particular the work of Durkheim.


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Authors & Contributors
Ratcliffe, Barrie M.
Lieberman, Lisa J.
Kushner, Howard I.
Gissis, Snait B.
Gates, Barbara T.
Staum, Martin S.
Journals
Sociology
Revue Philosophique de la France et de l' Étranger
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Perspectives on Science
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of Social History
Publishers
University of Colorado at Boulder
Stanford University Press
Princeton University Press
Presses Universitaires de France
Clarendon Press
Yale University
Concepts
Suicide
Forensic medicine
Sociology
Evolution
Psychopathology
Nosology; classification of diseases
People
Durkheim, Émile
Spencer, Herbert
Sombert, Werner
Latham, John
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François
Barbut, Marc
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
France
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Confederate States of America. Patent Office
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