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Enigmas of Health and Disease : How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries
Prologue: A Science Named Epidemiology
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December 31 2014
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December 31 2014
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DOI:
10.7312/mora16884-001
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. ix
Preface to the English Edition
pp. vii
Contents
pp. xiii
Prologue: A Science Named Epidemiology
pp. 1
1. Comparing Groups and the Fifth Dimension
pp. 13
2. People, Bugs, and Epidemics
pp. 31
3. Plague’s Shark Teeth and Seamen’s Enigmatic Exhaustion
pp. 41
4. The Mystery of the Blue Death
pp. 63
5. The Numerical Method
pp. 75
6. Eugenics, Oysters, Sour Skin, and Breast Cancer
pp. 97
7. Tobacco and Health: The Great Controversy
pp. 125
8. Daily Life Mysteries and Epidemiology
pp. 135
9. Is This Treatment Dangerous for Health?
pp. 141
10. Does the Treatment Work?
pp. 151
11. What Is the Optimal Medical Decision?
pp. 157
12. Health Risk or Health Benefit?
pp. 167
13. Is This Screening Useful?
pp. 171
14. Group Comparisons Also Fail
pp. 183
15. Epidemiologic Literacy and “Earthly Self-Realization”
pp. 193
16. Beyond Epidemiology
pp. 205
Epilogue: The End of Epidemiology?
pp. 213
Appendix 1: Interaction of Causes
pp. 215
Appendix 2: Odds Ratio and Risk Ratio
pp. 217
Appendix 3: Why Cohort and Case–Control Studies Concur
pp. 221
Appendix 4: Where Do the Cases of Lung Cancer Come From?
pp. 223
Notes
pp. 243
Bibliography
pp. 259
Index
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