Challenge of epidemiology : issues and selected readings / discussed and compiled by Carol Buck ... [et al.]
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TextSeries: Scientific publication (Pan American Health Organization) ; no. 505Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, 1988. Description: 989 pISBN: 9275115052Subject(s): Epidemiology -- collected works | Organization of Health Care and Social DevelopmentNLM classification: WA 105Abstract: Consolidates, for the first time, a core of landmark articles on the evolution, scope and limitations, uses, and prospects of epidemiology. The book, which is addressed to both students and practicing professionals, provides a much-needed frame of reference for reorienting the practice of epidemiology. An outstanding feature is the inclusion of the editors lively debates, their agreements and quarrels, that guided the selection of articles and thus gives readers a rare opportunity to approach this material with the editors own sense of excitement. The book is a collection of 91 articles, ranging from an excerpt by Hippocrates written in 400 B.C. to articles published as recently as 1985. These are grouped in five sections. The first two sections deal with the historical evolution of the discipline. Sections three and four address the application of epidemiology. The final section records the editors views on the future of epidemiology.
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Consolidates, for the first time, a core of landmark articles on the evolution, scope and limitations, uses, and prospects of epidemiology. The book, which is addressed to both students and practicing professionals, provides a much-needed frame of reference for reorienting the practice of epidemiology. An outstanding feature is the inclusion of the editors lively debates, their agreements and quarrels, that guided the selection of articles and thus gives readers a rare opportunity to approach this material with the editors own sense of excitement. The book is a collection of 91 articles, ranging from an excerpt by Hippocrates written in 400 B.C. to articles published as recently as 1985. These are grouped in five sections. The first two sections deal with the historical evolution of the discipline. Sections three and four address the application of epidemiology. The final section records the editors views on the future of epidemiology.
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