Additional Resources

Robert Aronowitz, Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Dan Bouk, “The History and Personal Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts," Osiris 32 (2017): 85-106.

John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992)

David Jones & Jeremy Greene, “Decline and Rise of Coronary Heart Diseases: Understanding Public Health Catastrophism,” Am. J. Public Health 103 (2013): 1207-1218.

David S. Jones & Gerald Oppenheimer, “If the Framingham Heart Study did not Invent the Risk Factor, Who Did?” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 6 (2017): 131-150.

Gerard Jorland, Annick Opinal, & George Weisz, Eds., Body Counts: Medical Quantification in History and Sociological Perspectives (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2005)

Harry Marks, The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986).

Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (New edition) (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.)

Sejal Patel, “The Benevolent Tyranny of Biostatistics,” Bull.Hist.Med. 87 (2013): 622-647.

William Rothstein, Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003).