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Quantitative Research in Human Biology and Medicine reflects the author's past activities and experiences in the field of medical statistics. The book presents statistical material from a variety of medical fields. The text contains chapters that deal with different aspects of vital statistics. It provides statistical surveys of perinatal mortality rate; epidemiology of various diseases, like cancer, tuberculosis, malaria, diphtheria, and scarlatina; and discussions of various aspects of human biology such as growth and development, genetics, and nutrition. The inheritance of mental qualities; the law governing multiple births; and historical demography are covered as well. Medical statisticians and physicians will find the book interesting.
1 Medical Statistics: Term, Contents, Definition, and Scope
2 Quantitative Research at the Dawn of Scientific Medicine and Today
3 Accidental and Repetitive Observations: Causative Relations
4 Aspects of the Past: Achievements
5 Aspects of the Past: Growth, Heredity
6 Aspects of the Past: Smallpox, Immunity, Hospital Statistics
7 Historical Statistics Elucidating More Recent Problems
8 Epidemiological Discoveries by the Use of Quantitative Logic
9 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Statistical Sources: Demodynamics
10 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Sources: Complications; Population Explosion
11 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Sources: Causes of Death
12 Unwarranted Quantitative Statements and their Refutation (Cancer and Tuberculosis)
13 Quantitative Approach to Man's Pathogenesis and Complementary Experimentation on Man and Animals: Assets and Pitfalls
14 Cause and Effect: Prenatal Growth
15 Cause and Effect: Maternal Mortality
16 Cause and Effect: Perinatal Mortality
17 Tuberculosis: Heredity and Environment; Statistical Methodology
18 Menarche: Unsuspected Relations
19 Intuitive Guesses: Observations, and Experiments in Physical and Life Sciences
20 Accidental Observations and Statistical Reasoning in Pathology
21 Unsolved Biological Problems: Multiple Births
22 Unsolved Biological Problems: Heredity of Mental Qualities
23 Unsolved Problems in Biopathology: Functions of the Tonsils
24 Sociobiological Relations: Nutrition
25 Sociobiological Relations: Marital Status, Tobacco
26 Sociobiological Relations: Suicide, Murder, Accidents, and Heroism
27 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: Sex Ratio, Life Duration
28 Models and Parameters: General Remarks
29 Models and Parameters: Frustrated Hopes in Pharmacology
30 Models and Parameters: Diphtheria and Scarlatina
31 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Evaluation of the Malaria Situation
32 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Short-Term Predictions, Measles
33 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Long-Term Predictions, Tuberculosis
34 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: Cancer: 1, Threshold or Cumulative Mechanism; 2, Tumour Growth
35 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: 1, Oestrogenic Hormones; 2 Perinatal Mortality
36 Models: Deductions from Iatrogenic Pathology: Ionizing Radiation
37 Final Remarks
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- © Butterworth-Heinemann 1967
- 1st January 1967
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