Article ID: CBB000073549

The statistical Big Bang of 1911: Ideology, technological innovation and the production of medical statistics (1996)

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Description “This paper examines the relationship between intellectual debate, technologies for analysing information, and the production of statistics in the General Register Office (GRO) in London in the early twentieth century.”


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Authors & Contributors
Mooney, Graham
Szreter, Simon
Riley, James C.
Landers, John
Wrigley, E. A.
Woods, Robert
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Journal of Historical Geography
Economic History Review
Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the History of Science
Medical History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Princeton University
Concepts
Medical statistics
People
Stapledon, George
Petty, William
Graunt, John
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Renaissance
20th century
17th century
Places
British Isles
France
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