Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or motor neuron disease is a devastating human illness of unknown aetiology. Many different disorders have been associated with certain facets of the clinical syndrome of ALS, and thus the concept of different ALS syndromes with diverse aetiologies has been proposed...
by human action and thought.1鈥 3 Grappling with notions of causation, in turn, raises not only complex philosophical issues but also, in the case of social epidemiology, issues of accountability and agency: simply invoking abstract notions of 'society' and disembodied 'genes' will not suffice....
I decided to write this chapter the last moment. It was September–October of 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic was at its highest point, or that was what we were thinking at that time, so were conspiracy theories concerning the virus and the outbreak in g
M Zitzmann - 《Asian Journal of Andrology》 被引量: 90发表: 2008年 Epidemiology informing clinical practice: from bills of mortality to population laboratories. The earliest observations on population patterns of disease and how they might inform medical practice probably occurred during the 17th centu...
摘要: Self-interest of the chemical industry apart, the lifestyle theory of cancer causation is held to reflect misinformation and 'inactive conservatism'.关键词: human nutrition, diet-related diseases DOI: 10.1038/289127a0 被引量: 89 年份: 1981 ...
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♦ Epidemiology: Study of causal relationships between environmental factors and disease. ♦ Epidemiological theory holds that the models used for studying and determining these relationships can also be used to study casual relationships between environmental factors and accidents. ♦ Components: –Pre...
Kunitz reminds us of the constant tension between our individual destinies and the communities in which we live.3 Part I of the book describes contemporary theories of disease causation. Chapter 1 discusses the emergence of two opposing schools of thought following the Industrial Revolution: the "...
In his captivating new book, „The Health of Populations‟, Stephen J. Kunitz reminds us of the constant tension between our individual destinies and the communities we live in =-=(3)-=-. Part I of the book describes contemporary theories of disease causation. Chapter 1 discusses the ...