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An historian of science and of twentieth-century America, Christopher Phillips' research focuses on the history of science, particularly statistics and mathematics. He is currently working on a history of statistics in medicine, centered on a group of biostatisticians at the National Institutes of Health and their efforts to transform measures of causality and proof in medicine. It is, in a sense, the prehistory of our current moment of "risky medicine" and "precision medicine," as well as of algorithms and artificial intelligence in medicine. This project investigates how and why medicine became a science of numbers. 

Philips has examined the rise and fall of the controversial "new math" curriculum against the changing politics of mid-century America and showed that far from being insulated from politics, the teaching of mathematics was framed as, and understood as, a fundamentally political enterprise. He has looked at the collection of data in professional baseball as a way of exploring the supposed distinction between objective, numbered knowledge and subjective, people knowledge.

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