1885 FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.
Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.
GMN 1704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2507
1886 BELOCH, Karl Julius (1854 – 1929)
Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11290
1891 –1894 CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2363
1892 OGLE, John William (1824 – 1905)
"A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." IN: An inquiry into the trustworthiness of the old bills of mortality.
On p. 452 of his paper Ogle reproduces in type "A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." Ogle states that Creighton attributed this manuscript bill of mortality t…
GMN 8377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10554
1926 GRIFFITH, Grosvenor Talbot (1899 – 1981)
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
GMN 10468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12661
1948 GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.
GMN 1716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2945
1958 RUSSELL, J. C.
Late ancient and medieval population.
Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.
GMN 9110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11289
1969 CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)
Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.
Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of demog…
GMN 11322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13520
1970 ACSÁDI, Györggyei; NEMESKÉRI, Janos (1914 – 1989)
History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.
A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.
GMN 9099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11278
1977 DENEVAN, William Maxfield (1931 – )
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
GMN 7977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10153
1982 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
GMN 10572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12765
1984 CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)
American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.
GMN 8622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10799
1985 SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
GMN 8820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10998
1985 DUPÂQUIER, Jacques (1922 – 2010); DUPÂQUIER, Michel
Histoire de la démographie: La statique de la population des origines à 1914.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11283
1986 CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)
Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.
"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)
GMN 11323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13521
1990 LANCASTER, Henry Oliver (1913 – 2001)
Expectations of life: A study in the demography, statistics, and history of world mortality.
GMN 8759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10937
1993 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
GMN 6963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9128
1995 MATTHEWS, J. Rosser
Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.
GMN 8714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10892
1995 PORTER, Theodore M. (1953 – )
Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.
GMN 8715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10893
1997 CORSINI, Carlo Alberto (1935 – 2017); VIAZZO, Pier Paolo (1950 – )
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
GMN 11822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14024
1997 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); HETZEL, Alice M. (1922 – )
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
GMN 12128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14337
1998 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…
GMN 10574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12767
2000 STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – ); HAINES, Michael R.
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
GMN 7976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10152
2000 BILLER, Peter (1945 – )
The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.
Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.
GMN 9094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11273
2000 WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)
The demography of Victorian England and Wales.
GMN 12206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14416
2001 RILEY, James C. (1943 – )
Rising life expectancy: A global history.
"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…
GMN 8396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10573
2001 SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )
Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.
GMN 10695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12888
2002 RUSNOCK, Andrea A.
Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.
Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.
GMN 8041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10217
2003 PATRIARCA, Silvana
Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.
GMN 12137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14346
2005 WEISZ, George; OPINEL, Annick; JORLAND, Gérard (1946 – 2018)
Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.
GMN 14029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16336
2009 WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
GMN 12021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14229
2010 TRÖHLER, Ulrich (1943 – )
The introduction of numerical methods to assess the effects of medical interventions during the 18th century: a brief history.
An outstanding bibliographical survey available online from the James Lind Library at this link.
GMN 9459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11642
2011 MORIYAMA, Iwao Milton (1906 – 2006); LOY, Ruth M.; ROBB-SMITH, Alastair Hamish Tearloch (1908 – 2000)
History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.
Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.
GMN 8408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10585
2011 BACAËR, Nicolas
A short history of mathematical population dynamics.
GMN 9892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12080
2013 KEYFITZ, Nathan (1913 – 2010); SMITH, David Paul (1944 – ); WACHTER, Kenneth W. (1946 – ); LE BRAS, Hervé (1943 – )
Mathematical demography: Selected papers. Edited by David Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Second, revised edition, edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.
GMN 8487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10664
2014 BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – )
Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.
GMN 7845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10017
