How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual by Dan Bouk

Author:Dan Bouk [Bouk, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226259208
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

88 Fisher and Fisk, How to Live, ix–x.

89 Hirshbein, “Masculinity, Work, and the Fountain of Youth,” 96. Hirshbein argues that LEI focused its efforts on middle-class white men. Veit notes that despite this fact, the focus on personal responsibility for longevity probably fell the heaviest on women and African Americans. See Veit, “‘Why Do People Die?’”

90 Life Extension Institute, Addresses, 7. Dublin had the institute’s records put on Hollerith cards for tabulation.

91 Provost Marshal General, Final Report, 9. Provost Marshal Crowder claimed of the selective service rolls produced with the help of 1,319 medical advisory boards: “Never in the history of this or any other nation had a more valuable and comprehensive accumulation of data been assembled upon the physical, economic, industrial, and racial condition of a people.” Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Annual Report (1918): 37. Some prominent early results of LEI’s statistical apparatus include Edgar Sydenstricker and Rollo H. Britten, “The Physical Impairments of Adult Life: General Results of a Statistical Study of Medical Examinations by the Life Extension Institute of 100,924 White Male Life Insurance Policy Holders since 1921,” American Journal of Hygiene 11, no. 1 (1930): 73–94; and “The Physical Impairments of Adult Life: Prevalence at Different Ages, Based on Medical Examinations by the Life Extension Institute of 100,924 White Male Life Insurance Policy Holders since 1921,” American Journal of Hygiene 11, no. 1 (1930): 95–135.

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