Thesis ID: CBB001565267

Mathematics and the quest for medical certainty: The emergence of the clinical trial, 1800-1950 (1992)

unapi

Matthews, John R. (Author)


Duke University
Mauskopf, Seymour H.


Publication Date: 1992
Edition Details: Supervisor: Seymour H. Mauskopf
Physical Details: 312 pp.

Description Focuses on developments in the nature of statistical reasoning and the role of science within medical practice. Studies three groups: P.-C.-A. Louis and his clinical critics in the Parisian medical world of the 1830s; various German commentators on statistical and probabilistic methods; and those trained by the British Biometrical School of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 55 (1995): 2546. Univ. Microfilms order no. 95-00486.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001565267/

Similar Citations

Book Rushton, Alan R.; (2009)
Genetics in Medicine in Great Britain 1600 to 1939 (/isis/citation/CBB001020882/)

Article Charles H. Pence; (2015)
The Early History of Chance in Evolution (/isis/citation/CBB068013192/)

Article Pritchard, Chris; (2008)
Mistakes Concerning a Chance Encounter between Francis Galton and John Venn (/isis/citation/CBB000931921/)

Chapter Weisz, George; (2005)
From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB000772043/)

Article Rushton, A. R.; (2000)
Nettleship, Pearson and Bateson: The biometric-Mendelian debate in a medical context (/isis/citation/CBB000110375/)

Article Levine, George; (1996)
Science and citizenship: Karl Pearson and the ethics of epistemology (/isis/citation/CBB000071709/)

Article Magnello, M. Eileen; (2005-2006)
Karl Pearson and the Origins of Modern Statistics: An Elastician Becomes a Statistician (/isis/citation/CBB000931941/)

Article Aldrich, John; (2010)
Mathematics in the London/Royal Statistical Society (/isis/citation/CBB001021434/)

Chapter Sandrini, Maria Grazia; (1994)
Fondamenti empiristici della teoria della correlazione e del test chi-quadro in Karl Pearson (/isis/citation/CBB000046246/)

Article Aldrich, John; (2009)
Burnside's Engagement with the “Modern Theory of Statistics” (/isis/citation/CBB000932073/)

Article Herbert, Christopher; (1996)
Science and narcissism (/isis/citation/CBB000071706/)

Chapter Burdett, Carolyn; (2002)
From The New Werther to Numbers and Arguments: Karl Pearson's Eugenics (/isis/citation/CBB000301350/)

Article Seneta, Eugene; Stamhuis, Ida H.; (2009)
Preface to Karl Pearson Issue (/isis/citation/CBB001033896/)

Chapter Gayon, Jean; (2007)
Karl Pearson ou les enjeux du phénoménalisme dans les sciences biologiques vers 1900 (/isis/citation/CBB001022510/)

Authors & Contributors
Pence, Charles H.
Magnello, M. Eileen
Aldrich, John
Wynn, James
White, John
Weisz, George M.
Journals
Modernism/Modernity
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and Education
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Publishers
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Notre Dame
Trafford Publishing
Routledge
Presses Universitaires de France
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Medicine
Science
Evolution
Mendelism
People
Pearson, Karl
Galton, Francis
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Bateson, William
Louis, Pierre Charles Alexandre
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Institutions
Statistical Society of London
Royal Statistical Society
Royal Society of London
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment