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Lin, Yi-Tang, 1986-

Statistics and the language of global health : international actors and local agencies in China, 1917-1960 / Yi-Tang Lin - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 - online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The Call for a Language of Public Health: Philanthropic Foundations, Bacteriologists, and Health Administrators --
2 The Language and Dialect of Health Science: Public Health Schools and Their Statistical Practices -- 3 The Language of Health Administrations: The League of Nations Epidemiological Intelligence Service -- 4 The Language of Policy-Making: Research and Advocacy through Health Demonstrations -- 5 Popularization at a Global Scale: The WHO and the Postwar Health Statistics Reporting System -- 6 The Art of Rhetoric: Statistical Standards at Work, from Fieldwork to World Policy-Making -- 7 Another Way of Speaking? Public Health Statistics in the People's Republic of China

ISBN: 9781108991339

Subjects--Topical Terms:
PUBLIC HEALTH--STATISTICS NUMERICAL DATA
STATISTICS AS TOPIC
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS--HISTORY

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
CHINA

LC Class. No.: RA 409 / L56S 2022