TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susser,Mervyn
AU  - Stein,Zena
TI  - Eras in epidemiology: the evolution of ideas 
SN  - 9780195300666 (inb.)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - medicine
KW  - health
KW  - diseases
KW  - history
KW  - epidemiology
KW  - epidemics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 arsenal of observational methods in epidemiology: classical designs, the fourfold table, cohort and case-control studies --; Epidemiologic experiments: natural and contrived -- New designs 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
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