Pierre Louis and the ‘Numerical Method’:  The Development of Evidence-Based Medicine in France and the United States
 Matthieu Corteel, Ph.D.:  Postdoctoral Research Associate at Sciences Po Paris, and Arthur Sachs Fellow at Harvard University

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Mathieu Corteel completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Sorbonne University. His thesis was on the Historical Epistemology of the Numerical Method in Medicine. He is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at Sciences Po Paris and Arthur Sachs Fellow at Harvard. He has recently published his first book based on his doctoral thesis, Le Hasard et le Pathologique (2020). The book traces the history of statistics and probability in medicine from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. It addresses historical, epistemological and political issues such as the emergence of statistics in public health policy and the impact of probability in clinical practice.

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david_satin@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital
and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine