History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts
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Author(s): A. Morabia (Ed.)
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3764368187
Format: softback
405pp
Price: €98
Review Date: 26 November 2004
Review: This book has two parts. The first presents the history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. The second is a collection of papers, originally published in Social and Preventive Medicine (International Journal of Public Health), most of which had been presented at a workshop in France in 1996. The workshop focused on the historical aspects of the body of epidemiological methods and concepts that are used today, looking at their relative importance at different times, rather than on specific achievements of epidemiology, like controlling plagues such as cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever, or lung cancer.