Medicine by the numbers revisiting James Cassedy's America
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| Description | To honor the distinguished historian of medicine and long-time National Library of Medicine staffer James Cassedy, the History of Medicine Division at NLM sponsored the first annual James Cassedy memorial lecture. Speaker Robert Martensen, MD, PhD, presented this lecture titled "Medicine by the numbers: revisiting James Cassedy's America." During his long career, Cassedy explored the rich history of counting and calculating that preoccupied many 19th-century American physicians. While numerical inquiries had long interested social historians and demographers, Cassedy's "American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860" (1984) and "Medicine and American Growth, 1800-1860" (1986) stimulated intellectual historians to analyze how and why our medical forebears embraced statistics. In this talk, Martensen revisits Cassedy's mid-century accounts and explores how physicians re-defined medical arithmetic as medicine turned increasingly to laboratory science in the century's closing dec |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Martensen, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Attribution: Martensen, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), National Library of Medicine (U.S.)