A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts

Chapter 1 Epidemiology: An epistemological perspective

Chapter 2 The changing assessments of John Snow’s and William Farr’s cholera studies

Chapter 3 Changing images of John Snow in the history of epidemiology

Chapter 4 Constructing vital statistics: Thomas Rowe Edmonds and William Farr, 1835–1845

Chapter 5 “ On Prognosis ” (British Medical Almanack 1838; Supplement 199–216)

Chapter 6 Comments on the paper “On Prognosis” by William Farr: a forgotton masterpiece

Chapter 7 Comments regarding “ On prognosis ” by William Farr (1838), with reconstruction of his longitudinal analysis of smallpox recovery and death rates

Chapter 8 Continuing controversies over “risks and rates” — more than a century after William Farr’s “ On prognosis ”

Chapter 9 Understanding William Farr’s 1838 article “ On prognosis ”: comment

Chapter 10 Methods of outbreak investigation in the “Era of Bacteriology” 1880–1920

Chapter 11 Statistical methods in epidemiology: Karl Pearson, Ronald Ross, Major Greenwood and Austin Bradford Hill, 1900–1945

Chapter 12 Chohort analysis: W.H. Frost’s contributions to the epidemiology of tuberculosis and chronic disease

Chapter 13 A short history of pathology registries, with emphasis on cancer registries

Chapter 14 Cohort studies: history of the method

Chapter 15 Issues of causality in the history of occupational epidemiology

Chapter 16 Origins and early development of the case-control study

Chapter 18 History of bias

Chapter 19 Causality in epidemiology

Chapter 20 Evolution of epidemiologic methods and concepts in selected textbooks of the 20 th century

Chapter 21 Commentary on the paper by Zhang et al. — Interaction and evolution in epidemiology

Chapter 22 Commentary on the paper by Zhang et al. — Lack of evolution of epidemiologic “methods and concepts”