tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post4807270081491500495..comments2023-10-24T10:09:22.146+01:00Comments on The Yorkshire Ranter: Review: "Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates", David WoottonAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-4863953846289922912008-01-16T16:00:00.000+01:002008-01-16T16:00:00.000+01:00Was it like the Nine Billion Names of God, i.e. on...Was it like the Nine Billion Names of God, i.e. once they'd counted all of it, it would begin to disappear?ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-33351652044868658062008-01-14T17:26:00.000+01:002008-01-14T17:26:00.000+01:00Ever hear of the London Statistical Society? Not t...Ever hear of the London Statistical Society? Not to be confused with the Statistical Society of London (tr. arr. T. Malthus, later to come over all Royal, etc), this was a 2-men +dog outfit which emerged from the late 1810s radical scene, on a mission to count the extent of Old Corruption. And a lot of other things, including: 'the territorial extent and population, rental, taxation, finances, commerce, consumption, insolvency, pauperism, and crime, of the British Empire'.<BR/><BR/>Then the utilitarians stuck their oar in, and that was that. Powerful juj^h^H discourse, numbers.<BR/><BR/>Chris WilliamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-49630282323716630702008-01-14T12:12:00.000+01:002008-01-14T12:12:00.000+01:00Hmmmm, yeah, good point - I probably ought to read...Hmmmm, yeah, good point - I probably ought to read the book. I seem to remember that the Fabians (among others) took the opportunity to bring along a number of other progressive schemes for the improvement of the working class as they went along though (specifically, quite a bit of eugenics wasn't it)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com