The identification of the causal role of tobacco smoking in a variety of diseases is a prime success of the new, post-Second World War epidemiology The historical sketch (see ‘The new epidemiology’) contains an outline that...
Author - Hari Haran
‘Know yourself ’: this Socratic maxim expresses the rationale for learning the history of epidemiology. Self-knowledge, as derived from a view of the development in time of epidemiology, promotes a positively critical...