Gross Salomon S
University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Ontario Canada.
Ann Demogr Hist (Paris). 1996:19-44.
In October 1929, a two-man delegation (a social hygienist and a sanitary statistician) went to Paris to participate in the meeting of the International Institute of Statistics called to consider revisions of the Bertillon classification of the causes of illness and death. The Soviet delegates were demonstrably eager to be considered part of the international scene in public health statistics. But they came to Paris with a radical proposal to replace the locationist system of classification with one that gave clear primacy to the principle of social etiology. This paper examines the assumptions about public health statistics, about the international area, and about their own indigenous tradition in public health, that underlay the Soviet proposal. On the basis of this particular case, the paper raises questions about the factors that favor the adoption of one system of statistical classification as opposed to others and about the general problem of studying "internationalism" in public health.
1929年10月，一个两人代表团（一名社会卫生学家和一名卫生统计学家）前往巴黎，参加国际统计学会召开的会议，该会议旨在审议对贝蒂荣疾病和死亡原因分类法的修订。苏联代表显然渴望被视为国际公共卫生统计领域的一部分。但他们来到巴黎时提出了一项激进的提议，即用一个明确以社会病因学原则为主导的分类系统取代区位主义分类系统。本文审视了支撑苏联提议的有关公共卫生统计、国际领域以及苏联自身公共卫生本土传统的假设。基于这一具体案例，本文提出了一些问题，涉及有利于采用一种统计分类系统而非其他系统的因素，以及研究公共卫生领域“国际主义”的一般性问题。
