Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries

Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia.

This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the o...

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Main Author: Morabia, Alfredo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > History.
Epidemiology
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Prologue: A Science Named Epidemiology; 1. Comparing Groups and the Fifth Dimension; 2. People, Bugs, and Epidemics; 3. Plague's Shark Teeth and Seamen's Enigmatic Exhaustion; 4. The Mystery of the Blue Death; 5. The Numerical Method; 6. Eugenics, Oysters, Sour Skin, and Breast Cancer; 7. Tobacco and Health: The Great Controversy; 8. Daily Life Mysteries and Epidemiology; 9. Is This Treatment Dangerous for Health?; 10. Does the Treatment Work?; 11. What Is the Optimal Medical Decision?; 12. Health Risk or Health Benefit?
  • 13. Is This Screening Useful?14. Group Comparisons Also Fail; 15. Epidemiologic Literacy and "Earthly Self-Realization"; 16. Beyond Epidemiology; Epilogue: The End of Epidemiology?; Appendix 1: Interaction of Causes; Appendix 2: Odds Ratio and Risk Ratio; Appendix 3: Why Cohort and Case-Control Studies Concur; Appendix 4: Where Do the Cases of Lung Cancer Come From?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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