Quantitative Research in Human Biology and Medicine

1st Edition - January 1, 1967
Author: Sigismund Peller
Language: English
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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… Read more

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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 Scope2 Quantitative Research at the Dawn of Scientific Medicine and Today3 Accidental and Repetitive Observations: Causative Relations4 Aspects of the Past: Achievements5 Aspects of the Past: Growth, Heredity6 Aspects of the Past: Smallpox, Immunity, Hospital Statistics7 Historical Statistics Elucidating More Recent Problems8 Epidemiological Discoveries by the Use of Quantitative Logic9 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Statistical Sources: Demodynamics10 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Sources: Complications; Population Explosion11 Questionable Reliability of Some Official Sources: Causes of Death12 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 Pitfalls14 Cause and Effect: Prenatal Growth15 Cause and Effect: Maternal Mortality16 Cause and Effect: Perinatal Mortality17 Tuberculosis: Heredity and Environment; Statistical Methodology18 Menarche: Unsuspected Relations19 Intuitive Guesses: Observations, and Experiments in Physical and Life Sciences20 Accidental Observations and Statistical Reasoning in Pathology21 Unsolved Biological Problems: Multiple Births22 Unsolved Biological Problems: Heredity of Mental Qualities23 Unsolved Problems in Biopathology: Functions of the Tonsils24 Sociobiological Relations: Nutrition25 Sociobiological Relations: Marital Status, Tobacco26 Sociobiological Relations: Suicide, Murder, Accidents, and Heroism27 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: Sex Ratio, Life Duration28 Models and Parameters: General Remarks29 Models and Parameters: Frustrated Hopes in Pharmacology30 Models and Parameters: Diphtheria and Scarlatina31 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Evaluation of the Malaria Situation32 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Short-Term Predictions, Measles33 Medical and Mathematical Epidemiology: Long-Term Predictions, Tuberculosis34 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: Cancer: 1, Threshold or Cumulative Mechanism; 2, Tumour Growth35 Medical Versus Mathematical Statistics: 1, Oestrogenic Hormones; 2 Perinatal Mortality36 Models: Deductions from Iatrogenic Pathology: Ionizing Radiation37 Final RemarksAuthor IndexSubject Index