Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.