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A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts / edited by Alfredo Morabia.
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English
Published/Created
Boston, MA : Birkhauser Verlag, 2004.
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xvii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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RA649 .H55 2004
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Epidemiology
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Annecy workshop
Epidemiology teaching
An antidote to dogmatism
Pt. I. Epidemiology : an epistemological perspective / Alfredo Morabia
Pt. II. Collection of papers on the history of epidemiological methods and concepts
The changing assessments of John Snow's and William Farr's cholera studies / John M. Eyler
Changing images of John Snow in the history of epidemiology / Jan P. Vandenbroucke
Constructing vital statistics : Thomas Rowe Edmonds and William Farr, 1835-1845 / John M. Eyler
"On prognosis" (British medical almanack 1838; supplement 199-216) / William Farr
Comments on the paper "on prognosis" by William Farr : a forgotten masterpiece / Gerry Bernhard Hill
Comments regarding "on prognosis" by William Farr (1838), with reconstruction of his longitudinal analysis of smallpox recovery and death rates / B. Burt Gerstman
Continuing controversies over "risks and rates" - more than a century after William Farr's "on prognosis" / Jan P. Vandenbroucke
Understanding William Farr's 1838 article "on prognosis" : comment / John M. Eyler
Methods of outbreak investigation in the "era of bacteriology" 1880-1920 / Anne Hardy
Statistical methods in epidemiology : Karl Pearson, Ronald Ross, Major Greenwood and Austin Bradford Hill, 1900-1945 / Anne Hardy and M. Eileen Magnello
Cohort analysis : W. H. Frost's contributions to the epidemiology of tuberculosis and chronic disease / George W. Comstock
A short history of pathology registries, with emphasis on cancer registries / Benedetto Terracini and Roberto Zanetti
Cohort studies : history of the method / Richard Doll
Issues of causality in the history of occupational epidemiology / Steven D. Stellmann
Origins and early development of the case-control study / Nigel Paneth, Ezra Susser and Mervyn Susser
The history of confounding / Jan P. Vandenbroucke
History of bias / Paolo Vineis
Causality in epidemiology / Paolo Vineis
Evolution of epidemiologic methods and concepts in selected textbooks of the 20[superscript th] century / Fang F. Zhang, Desiree C. Michaels, Barun Mathema, Shuaib Kauchali, Anjan Chatterjee, David C. Ferris, Tamarra M. James, Jennifer Knight, Matthew Dounel, Hebatullah O. Tawfik, Janet A. Frohlich, Li Kuang, Elena K. Hoskin, Frederick J. Veldman, Giulia Baldi, Koleka P. Mlisana, Lerole D. Mametja, Angela Diaz, Nealia L. Khan, Pamela Sternfels, Jeffery J. Sevigny, Asher Shamam and Alfredo Morbia
Commentary on the paper by Zhang et al. - interaction and evolution in epidemiology / Kenneth J. Rothman
Commentary on the paper by Zhang et al. - lack of evolution of epidemiologic "methods and concepts" / Olli S. Miettinen.
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ISBN
3764368187 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004052802
OCLC
55534998
RCP
C - S
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