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The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 An Analysis of Interactions between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
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    Chapter 2 How Numerical Sociology Began by Counting Suicides: From Medical Pathology to Social Pathology
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    Chapter 3 Probabilistic Thinking, the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Changing Configurations (1800–1850)
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    Chapter 4 The Scientific Revolution and the Social Sciences
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    Chapter 5 Blackstone’s “Newtonian” Dissent
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    Chapter 6 From Political Economy to Market Mechanics: The Jevonian Moment in the History of Economics
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    Chapter 7 The Technology of Nature: Marx’s Thoughts on Darwin
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    Chapter 8 Towards the Social Organism: Herbert Spencer and William B. Carpenter on the Analogical Method
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    Chapter 9 Darwin and the Agronomists: An Influence of Political Economy on Scientific Thought
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    Chapter 10 Milne-Edwards, Darwin, Durkheim and the Division of Labour: A Case Study in Reciprocal Conceptual Exchanges between the Social and the Natural Sciences
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    Chapter 11 From Quetelet to Maxwell: Social Statistics and the Origins of Statistical Physics
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    Chapter 12 A Conversation with Harvey Brooks on the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and Public Policy — Conducted by I. Bernard Cohen
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Chapter title
How Numerical Sociology Began by Counting Suicides: From Medical Pathology to Social Pathology
Chapter number 2
Book title
The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1994
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3391-5_2
Book ISBNs
978-9-04-814258-3, 978-9-40-173391-5
Authors

Ian Hacking

Editors

I. Bernard Cohen

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 1 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 100%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 100%

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