Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia.
By: Morabia, Alfredo [author.].
Contributor(s): Morabia, Alfredo. Santé.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2014Description: xxii, 271 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780231168847 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): EpidemiologyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 614.4| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adaptation of: Santé : 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.