Title
Eras in epidemiology [electronic resource] : the evolution of ideas / Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein.
ISBN
9780199863754 (ebook) :
Published
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (368 p.) : ill.
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Summary
The authors trace the evolution of epidemiological ideas from earliest times to the present, starting with the early concepts of magic and the humours of Hippocrates and moving through the dawn of observational methods, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution up to the development of eco-epidemiology.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version
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September 10, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.