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Integrating Science and Practice: Adopting the Pasteurian Model

The field of psychology has a long history of attempting to make its basic science relevant to the analysis and solution of social problems. Some psychologists claim that it has been successful at this goal, but others are not convinced. Historically, the field has followed a linear model in its attempts at being relevant: Basic science is somehow developed first, and later someone comes along ...

"Living versus dead": The Pasteurian paradigm and imperial vaccine research.

The Semple antirabies vaccine was developed by David Semple in India in 1911. Semple introduced a peculiarly British approach within the Pasteurian tradition by using carbolized dead virus. This article studies this unique phase of vaccine research between 1910 and 1935 to show that in the debates and laboratory experiments around the potency and safety of vaccines, categories like "living" and...

Deaths

Effect on local death rates of recent changes in the statistical treatment of hospital deaths.

A previous communication (Hewitt, 1957) drew attention to the disturbances in official mortality rates for local areas of England and Wales which had resulted from a change in the statistical treatment of deaths occurring in hospital. There have since been two further changes in the official procedure, and some revaluation is called for. Successive modifications of the statistical practice have...

Traffic deaths: recent evolution and regional differences in Bahia State, Brazil.

This study describes the temporal evolution of mortality due to traffic accidents in regions within Bahia State, Brazil, from 1996 to 2007, using data from the Brazilian Mortality Information System. We calculated overall rates of mortality due to traffic accidents and specific rates by type of victim. Temporal evolution was analyzed by means of correlations between rates and years of study, as...