Eras in Epidemiology: The Evolution of Ideas

Eras in Epidemiology. The Evolution of Ideas. Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein. The first comprehensive, authored history of epidemiology.
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Epidemiologists are guided by these concepts, and have often contributed to their development.

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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.

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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. The Scope and Purposes of Epidemiology 2. The Relation of Concepts to Causes in Epidemiology 3. The Concept of Environment 4.

Eras in epidemiology : the evolution of ideas

Numeracy in Epidemiology 5. The British Sanitary Movement: 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 Germ Theory, Infection, and Bacteriology The Concept of Host and Immunity Epidemiology Fully Harnessed to Public Health: Darwin and Galton Futhering the Epidemiology of Social Gradients and Disease: Goldberger and Sydenstricker The Expanded Epidemiology Team: The Arsenal of Observational Methods in Epidemiology: Natural and Contrived New Designs and Models Would you also like to submit a review for this item?

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This book will include a section of conceptual chapters, including chapters on the relation of concepts to causes, the concept of environment, and numeracy in epidemiology.


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It will then discuss history more specifically, with chapters on the French Enlightenment, the British Sanitary Movement, and bacteriology and germ theory. It will conclude with a section on epidemiology as it emerged into an academic discipline, after WWII, and will discuss future directions for the field.

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