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history of epidemiologic methods and concepts
1 online resource (xvii, 405 pages) : illustrations.
Focuses on the historical emergence of current epidemiological methods and their relative importance at different points in time, rather than on specific achievements of epidemiology in controlling plagues such as cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever, or lung cancer. The papers in this volume present the design of prospective and retrospective studies, and the concepts of bias, confounding, and interaction. The compilation of articles is complemented by an introduction and comments by Prof. Alfredo Morabia which puts them in the context of current epidemiological research.
From the contents: Introduction -- Cohort analysis -- Cohort studies: history of the method -- The changing assessments of John Snow's and William Farr's cholera studies -- Changing images of John Snow in the history of epidemiology -- Methods of outbreak investigation in the "Era of Bacteriology" 1880-1920 -- Constructing vital statistics: Thomas Rowe Edmonds and William Farr, 1835-1845 -- Statistical methods in epidemiology: Karl Pearson, Ronald Ross, Major Greenwood and Austin Bradford Hill, 1900-1945 -- History of bias -- The history of confounding -- Origins and early development of the case-control study: A short history of pathology registries, with emphasis on cancer registries -- Causality in epidemiology -- Issues of causality in the history of occupational epidemiology.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-396) and index.