Nothing Becomes Something
Thomas Laqueur: Pathography, 22 September 2016
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,978 1 84792 367 7 Show More
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,
“... problem of vacuum tube survival in transatlantic telephone cable repeaters, was put in touch with Paul Meier, who was working on cancer survival using a similar method.) The use of these techniques in medicine and in the world of cancer is ubiquitous, and they have done a great deal to create the new temporal world of pathography. These statistical techniques ... ”