Eras in epidemiology : the evolution of ideas
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Eras in epidemiology : the evolution of ideas
Oxford University Press, c2009
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Includes index (p. 339-352)
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Description
At its core, epidemiology is concerned with changes in health and disease. The discipline requires counts and measures: of births, health disorders, and deaths, and in order to make sense of these counts it requires a population base defined by place and time. Epidemiology relies on closely defined concepts of cause - experimental or observational - of the physical or social environment, or in the laboratory. Epidemiologists are guided by these concepts, and have
often contributed to their development. Because the disciplinary focus is on health and disease in populations, epidemiology has always been an integral driver of public health, the vehicle that societies have evolved to combat and contain the scourges of mass diseases.
In this book, the authors trace the evolution of epidemiological ideas from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the early concepts of magic and the humors of Hippocrates, it moves forward through the dawn of observational methods, the systematic counts of deaths initiated in 16th-century London by John Graunt and William Petty, the late 18th-century Enlightenment and the French Revolution, which established the philosophical argument for health as a human right, the national public
health system begun in 19th-century Britain, up to the development of eco-epidemiology, which attempts to re-integrate the fragmented fields as they currently exist. By examining the evolution of epidemiology as it follows the evolution of human societies, this book provides insight into our shared
intellectual history and shows a way forward for future study.
Table of Contents
1. The Scope and Purposes of Epidemiology
2. The Relation of Concepts to Causes in Epidemiology
3. The Concept of Environment
4. Numeracy in Epidemiology
5. The French Enlightenment, Epidemiology, and Public Health
6. The British Sanitary Movement: Edwin Chadwick
7. Vital Statistics: William Farr and the Creation of a System
8. Contagion, Infection, and the Idea of Specific Agents
9. Origins of a National Public Health System
10. Germ Theory, Infection, and Bacteriology
11. The Concept of Host and Immunity
12. Epidemiology Fully Harnessed to Public Health: New York
13. Evolution and Genetics: Darwin and Galton
14. Futhering the Epidemiology of Social Gradients and Disease: Goldberger and Sydenstricker
15. Epidemiology After World War II: New Times, New Problems, New Players
16. The Expanded Epidemiology Team: Social Scientists and Statisticians Join Epidemiologists in Social Surveys
17. The Arsenal of Observational Methods in Epidemiology: Classical Designs, the Fourfold Table, Cohort and Case-Control Studies
18. Epidemiologic Experiments: Natural and Contrived
19. New Designs and Models
20. Social Science in Epidemiology
21. Epidemiologists and Geneticists: A Developing Detente
22. Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Beyond Bacteria
23. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Role of Women: The New Challenge
24. Choosing a Future for Epidemiology: I. Eras and Paradigms
25. Choosing a Future for Epidemiology: II. From Black Box to Chinese Boxes and Eco-Epidemiology
26. The Eco- in Eco-Epidemiology
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