How our days became numbered : risk and the rise of the statistical individual / Dan Bouk.

  • Bouk, Dan, 1980-
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Physical description

xxx, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.

Contents

Classing -- Fatalizing -- Writing -- Smoothing -- A modern conception of death -- Valuing lives, in four movements -- Failing the future.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CCA.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226259178
  • 022625917X