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...
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‘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...
The body is organized from its smallest element, the cell, to the collection of systems, with all its interrelated parts. Cells The entire body is made of cells that vary in size, shape, and function, but all cells have one thing...