Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries /

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Hovedforfatter: Morabia, Alfredo (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Comparing groups and the fifth dimension
  • People, bugs, and epidemics
  • Plague's shark teeth and seamen's enigmatic exhaustion
  • The mystery of the blue death
  • The numerical method
  • Eugenics, oysters, sour skin, and breast cancer
  • Tobacco and health : the great controversy
  • Daily life mysteries and epidemiology
  • Is this treatment dangerous for health?
  • Does the treatment work?
  • What is the optimal medical decision?
  • Health risk or health benefit?
  • Is this screening useful?
  • Group comparisons also fail
  • Epidemiologic literacy and earthly self-realization
  • Beyond epidemiology.