| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history |
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Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The past continuous of epidemiology / Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi, and Annukka Sailo -- Patterning tuberculosis : interwar tuberculosis research as a bridge between infectious and risk factor epidemiology / Heini Hakosalo -- The case-control method on trial : the "Bermuda Summit Peace Conference" (1978) / Nicolas Brault. -- The coexistent temporalities : multilayered ethics in birth cohort studies / Katariina Parhi -- The Oxford Nutrition Survey (1941-1950) : its rise and fall under Hugh Sinclair / Paul Weindling -- Spotlighted or hidden in plain sight : consequences of the post-war ban on ethnic registration in Sweden / Ida Al Fakir -- Risk factor epidemiology viewed from below : lay reception of the North Karelia Project (Finland) in the 1970s and early 1980s / Mikko Jauho -- From colonial medicine to global health : epidemiologies of sexually transmitted diseases in East and Central Africa / Jan Kuhanen and Markky Hokkanen -- Light pollution : auroral displays, environmental carcinogens, and epidemiological imaginings of Inuit cancer / Jennifer Fraser -- Scientized politics : Finnish basic income trial as a quest for experimental truth / Mona Mannevuo -- Virus-imagery : a short history of pandemic mis-representation, HIV to COVID-19 / Lukas Engelmann -- Afterword : History and epidemiology in the age of COVID 19 / Heini Hakosalo |
| Summary |
"This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are conceptualized and controlled, and, more generally, on the way that people in modern societies think about health, behavior, longevity, and risk. This collection consists of a series of in-depth analyses of the roots, development, and impact of epidemiological research, illuminating the complex relationship between medical research and data on the one hand, and social and cultural factors on the other. The thematical and geographical scope of the book ranges from indigenous and participant perspectives to the visualization of pandemics, and from Circumpolar North to East Africa. The book identifies significant historical changes and the driving forces behind them, charting forms of science-society interaction that characterize modern epidemiology. Chapter 1 and chapter 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com"-- Provided by the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epidemiology -- History -- 20th century
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Epidemiology -- History -- 21st century
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Epidemiology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hakosalo, Heini, editor.
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Parhi, Katariina, editor.
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Sailo, Annukka, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031206719 |
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3031206711 |
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