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The last part examines the place of population statistics in debates about the (actual or alleged) degeneration of a population.
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The first part focuses on the history of population statistics in the 19th century. The second part shows how statistics are interpreted as concrete proofs of physical and moral deterioration based on the construction of three indicators.
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This approach echoes the process of "quantification" (Desrosières, 2014) to describe the fact of "expressing and making exist in numerical form what was previously expressed in words and not in numbers".
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as discussed by physicians, statisticians and chroniclers in the mid-19th century. This study examines the way in which a medical theory (degeneration) takes shape through numbers produced for administrative purposes.
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This article explores how the theory of "population degeneration" (theorized by Morel in 1857) developed in relation to the emergence of population statistics. It analyses the increasing use of statistics in debates on the degeneration of the population,
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L'article de Pauline Hervois, intitulé "Counting—or recounting?—France’s future population: The use of statistics in debates on population degeneration (France, 19th century)" vient de sortir dans les BMSAP
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Counting—or recounting?—France’s future population: The use of stat...
Introduction In 1857, the alienist, Bénédict-Augustin Morel, raised an alarm about the state of the French population, denouncing…
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