Chapter 13 BEYOND ONE-CASE STATISTICS: MATHEMATICS, MEDICINE, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE IN THE POSTWAR ERA
Jean-Paul Gaudillère
In 1961 Daniel Schwartz, a statistician studying the relationship between tobacco and cancer for the INH—the French medical research agency—wrote a popular paper on ‘The Statistical Method in Medicine’ published in a journal widely circulated within the medical profession. Schwartz scorned French physicians who thought that statistics had little to do with medical knowledge:
The reasons explaining this backwardness are diverse. France is a leading country in pure mathematics. As a consequence applied mathematics have been neglected. The statistical method emerged in the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ countries ...
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