| Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Note |
Adaptation of: Sante / Alfredo Morabia. 2011. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Epidemiology.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Adaptation of (work): Morabia, Alfredo.
Sante.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morabia, Alfredo. Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231168854 (DNLM)101620776 (DLC)10887371 |
| ISBN |
9780231168847 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231168854 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780231537674 (electronic bk.) |
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