Parallel paper session 1

Tuesday May 15, 13:30.

 

A: Health Statistics                                                             

Room D137, Chair: Ann R Sćtnan

-> Abstracts

Biostatistics and Biopolitics: Modelling Population Health via Risk Assessment

Susanne Bauer

 

What ecological networks and market based health programs have in common

Stans van Egmond & Ragna Zeiss

 

“The Society of Disease”: Medical science as co-construction of nature and society - Three accounts of epidemic disease from the 19th century.

Jan Groven Grande

 

B: Recognition - Redistribution                                           

Room D138, Chair: Nadji Khefif

-> Abstracts

What kind of Sámi figures? A discussion on status and future prospects for contemporary Sámi statistics

Torunn Pettersen

 

How do we define for whom the bell curves? Measuring ethnicity in Canada

Ellen Balka

 

Poverty measures as boundary objects between science and state:

A business approach to users and producers of poverty statistics.

Julia Mensink

 

Ideas in Action: 'Human Development' and 'Capability' as Boundary Objects

Asuncion Lera St. Clair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Therefore ask not for whom the bell [curves], it [curves] for thee."

Identity Categories in Census Data

Health Statistics

Criminal Justice Statistics

Statistics in the Evalution of Municipal Services

Evaluating and Interpreting the Algorithms

 

Interested in the project? Contact Ann R. Sætnan for more info:
- Phone: +47 735 91786
- Email: Ann.R.Saetnan@
svt.ntnu.no

Department of Sociology and Political Science
NTNU, 7491 Trondheim
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Phone: +47 735 91716
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Updated: 11. May 2007
Editor: Jon Hovland