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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 의학 > 전염병학
· ISBN : 9780231168854
· 쪽수 : 296쪽
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Preface to the English Edition
Prologue: A Science Named Epidemiology
1. Comparing Groups and the Fifth Dimension
2. People, Bugs, and Epidemics
3. Plague's Shark Teeth and Seamen's Enigmatic Exhaustion
4. The Mystery of the Blue Death
5. The Numerical Method
6. Eugenics, Oysters, Sour Skin, and Breast Cancer
7. Tobacco and Health: The Great Controversy
8. Daily Life Mysteries and Epidemiology
9. Is This Treatment Dangerous for Health?
10. Does the Treatment Work?
11. What Is the Optimal Medical Decision?
12. Health Risk or Health Benefit?
13. Is This Screening Useful?
14. Group Comparisons Also Fail
15. Epidemiologic Literacy and "Earthly Self-Realization"
16. Beyond Epidemiology
Epilogue: The End of Epidemiology?
Appendix 1: Interaction of Causes
Appendix 2: Odds Ratio and Risk Ratio
Appendix 3: Why Cohort and Case-Control Studies Concur
Appendix 4: Where Do the Cases of Lung Cancer Come From?
Notes
Bibliography
Index