Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxii, 271 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780231168847
- 0231168845
- 9780231168854
- 0231168853
- 614.4 23
- RA652 .M67 2014
- WA 105
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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.