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100 1 _aSusser, Mervyn
245 1 0 _aEras in epidemiology :
_bthe evolution of ideas /
_cMervyn Susser and Zena Stein
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009
300 _axiv, 352 p. :
_bill.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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 --
505 0 _aEvolution 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 --
505 0 _aEpidemiologic 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.
650 7 _amedicine
_xhealth
_xdiseases
_xhistory
653 _aepidemiology
653 _aepidemics
700 1 _aStein, Zena
852 _h61 Susser
942 _cMONO
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