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Author Morabia, Alfredo, author.

Title Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Adaptation of (work): Morabia, Alfredo. Sante.
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)
9780231168854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231537674 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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