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Epidemiology: An epistemological perspective

  • Morabia A
Birkhäuser Basel, (2004), 3-125
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7603-2_1
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The term “epidemiology” is a source of confusion about the nature of this discipline. For the public, “epidemiology” evokes a medical discipline that deals with large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases. This was indeed its meaning in the...

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Morabia, A. (2004). Epidemiology: An epistemological perspective. In A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts (pp. 3–125). Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7603-2_1

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