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| Author(s): | R. Saracci |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780199543335 |
| Format: | softback |
| 145pp | |
| Price: | £7.99 |
| Review Date: | 21 February 2010 |
| Review: | This is the latest handbook in OUP’s ‘Short Introduction’ series. It is intended to give the reader insight into what makes the difference between an epidemiological story, be it about a magic pill or dreadful virus, and sound epidemiological evidence. To set epidemiology into perspective, its methods, logic and uses in medicine and public health are outlined against a backdrop of today’s concerns for ethics and social justice in health. There are chapters on: What is epidemiology?; Measuring health and disease; Searching for the causes of a disease; Testing how to control a disease; Following up people’s health; Investigating people’s past experiences; Mapping health and disease; From epidemiology to medicine, prevention, and public health; and Epidemiology between ethics and politics. |