The vital life force in the body, supposedly able to be regulated by acupuncture. It corresponds roughly to the Greek pneuma, the Latin spiritus, and the ancient Indian prana. The concept of life-breath or vital energy was formulated as an indication of the awareness of man, originally directed externally toward nature or society but later turned inward to the self or life within. (From Comparison between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West, 15th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, August 26-September 3, 1990, Shizuoka, Japan, pp. ix-x)
--subdivision Casualties--Statistics under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Statistics; and subdivision Statistics, Vital under names of countries, cities, etc. and under ethnic groups for compilations of birth, marriage, and death statistics
--subdivision Casualties--Statistics under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Statistics; and subdivision Statistics, Vital under names of countries, cities, etc. and under ethnic groups for compilations of birth, marriage, and death statistics
Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth
Vital signs -- Textbooks : Vital sign measurement across the lifespan / Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, and Andy Tan ; 2nd Canadian edition H5P contributors, Kymberley Bontinen, Barbara Metcalf, Lee-Anne Stephen, Michelle Hughes, Margaret Verkuyl
Vital statistics -- Congresses. : Record linkage techniques-- 1997 : proceedings of an international workshop and exposition / Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Office of Management and Budget
The metaphysical doctrine that the functions and processes of life are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces and that the laws of physics and chemistry alone cannot explain life functions and processes. Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism. The belief was that matter was divided into two classes based on behavior with respect to heat: organic and inorganic. Inorganic material could be melted but could always be recovered by removing the heat source. Organic compounds changed form upon heating and could not be recovered by removing the heat source. The proposed explanation for the difference between organic and inorganic compounds was the Vitalism Theory, which stated that inorganic materials did not contain the "vital force" of life
