an introduction and conceptual critique Baronov, David creator author. text bibliography nyu 2022 monographic eng

print

pages cm "Biostatistical analysis contributes to amazing medical breakthroughs, yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How can biostatistics both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? What is unique about the content of health and medicine that so plainly reveals such distortions and deformities? Exploring these questions entails, first, a full survey of the tools and techniques of biostatistical analysis aiding medical breakthroughs. This survey must then be paired with a probe into the conceptual premises of these tools and techniques and how they refashion and reconstitute the content of health and medicine in preparation for its quantification. We must grasp the statistical machinations at play, both technical and conceptual, that contrive to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects. This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis"-- David Baronov. Includes bibliographical references and index. Biometry QH323.5 .B3595 2022 570.1/5195 9781032328393 9781032328386 2022022379 DLC 220602 20260619154028.0 22627383 eng