Eras in epidemiology
Subtitle: the evolution of ideas
By: Mervyn Susser, Zena Stein.
Contributors: Stein, Zena.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195300666
Subjects: Epidemiology -- History; Epidemiology -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The scope of epidemiology; title: The relation of concepts to causes in epidemiology; title: The concept of environment; title: Numeracy in epidemiology; title: The French enlightenment, epidemiology and public health; title: The British sanitary movement : Edwin Chadwick; title: Vital statistics : William Farr and the creation of a system; title: Contagion, infection, and the idea of specific agents; title: Origins of a national public health system.