Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique - Brossura

Baronov, David

 
9781032328386: Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique
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ISBN 10: 103232838X ISBN 13: 9781032328386
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2022

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Without question, biostatistical analysis has contributed to a slew of amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How is it that biostatistics can both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? What is unique about the content of health and medicine that so plainly reveals such distortions and deformities? Exploring these questions entails, first, a full survey of the tools and techniques of biostatistical analysis aiding medical breakthroughs. This survey must then be paired with a probe into the conceptual premises of these tools and techniques and how they refashion and reconstitute the inherently qualitative content of health and medicine in preparation for its quantification. We must grasp the statistical machinations at play, both technical and conceptual, that contrive to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects. This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where his current research interests include the ontology of social science methods and the quantitative/qualitative divide. Previous publications include Conceptual Foundations of Social Science Methods (2012) and The Dialectics of Inquiry across the Historical Social Sciences (2014).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
103232838X
ISBN 13 
9781032328386
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
290
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Casa editrice: Routledge, 2022
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