Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries /
Morabia, Alfredo,
Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia. - xxii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Adaptation of: SanteÌ : distinguisher croyances et connaissance / Alfredo Morabia. 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
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.
9780231168847 0231168845 9780231168854 0231168853
2013046811
Epidemiology.
RA652 / .M67 2014
614.4
WA 105
Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia. - xxii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Adaptation of: SanteÌ : distinguisher croyances et connaissance / Alfredo Morabia. 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
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.
9780231168847 0231168845 9780231168854 0231168853
2013046811
Epidemiology.
RA652 / .M67 2014
614.4
WA 105