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Regulated Lives - 9781442639966

Un libro in lingua di Timothy Alborn edito da Univ of Toronto Pr, 2009

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This book traces the formulations of different conceptualizations of lives in the British insurance industry from 1800 to 1914. Examining the distinct but overlapping modes of thinking by agents, actuaries, and doctors within the industry, he discusses how insurance customers' lives were conceived as: sympathetic lives whose hopes and fears for the future and responsibilities to family and society were anticipated, dramatized, and manipulated by the insurance companies; numerical lives analyzed for their place in the companies' mortality curves; medical lives important for the identification of risk; and commodified lives holding calculable economic values for the insurance companies. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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