Eras in epidemiology : the evolution of ideas / Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Susser, Mervyn.

Contributor:

Stein, Zena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology--History.

Epidemiology.

Epidemiology--history.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Epidemiology--history.

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

The scope and purposes of epidemiology

The relation of concepts to causes in epidemiology

The concept of environment

Numeracy in epidemiology

The French enlightenment, epidemiology, and public health

The British sanitary movement : Edwin Chadwick

Vital statistics : William Farr and the creation of a system

Contagion, infection, and the idea of specific agents

Origins of a national public health system

Germ theory, infection, and bacteriology

The concept of host and immunity

Epidemiology fully harnessed to public health : New York

Evolution and genetics : Darwin and Galton

Furthering the epidemiology of social gradients and disease : Goldberger and Sydenstricker

Epidemiology after World War II : new times, new problems, new players

The expanded epidemiology team : social scientists and statisticians join epidemiologists in social surveys

The aresenal of observational methods in epidemiology : classical designs, the fourfold table, cohort and case-control studies

Epidemiologic experiments : natural and contrived

New deisgns and models

Social science in epidemiology

Epidemiologists and geneticists : a developing détente

Infectious disease epidemiology : beyond bacteria

Human immunodeficiency virus and the role of women : the new challenge

Choosing a future for epidemiology : I. Eras and paradigms

Choosing a future for epidemiology : II. From black box to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology

The eco- in eco-epidemiology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195300666

0195300661

OCLC:

259754333