Medical Doctor, Economist and Statistician: A Strategic Alliance for Healthcare and Development in the Italian Directorate General for Statistics (1861-1898)

Autor: Claudia Rotondi
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Œconomia, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 313-343 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2113-5207
2269-8450
DOI: 10.4000/oeconomia.3465
Popis: This work outlines the role played in Italy by statisticians, together with medical doctors, to draw politicians’ attention to the population healthcare to further encourage national development. This topic becomes particularly relevant thanks to the “statistics factory” at the MAIC’s (Ministry for Agriculture, Industry and Commerce) Directorate General for Statistics which existed from the Italian Unification (1861) till the end of the 19th century. Moreover, under the supervision of Luigi Bodio, a scholar and a master with a wide net of relations with other scientists, MAIC becomes an interesting vantage point for observing how healthcare issues became a substantial element of the Italian national building process with reference to foreign counterparts.
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