Epidemiological state-building in interwar Poland: discourses and paper technologies

Víctor Paredes Miguel · Science in Context · 2019

Summary

It is argued that epidemic surveillance and state-building were closely interconnected in interwar Poland and it is only when these practices are taken into account that the epidemiological order the statistics produced is understood.

Type: article
Published: 2019-03-01
Cited by: 3
References: 114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889719000036
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31124774/
OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W31124774
Semantic Scholar: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163166153

Keywords

Humanities, Philosophy

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