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Epidemiology’s 350th Anniversary

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Between 1600 and 1700, sudden, profound, and multifarious changes occurred in philosophy, science, medicine, politics, and society. In an extremely convulsed century, these profound and convergent upheavals produced the equivalent of a cultural big bang, which opened a new domain of knowledge acquisition based on population thinking and group comparisons. In 1662, when John Graunt applied-for the first time-the new approach to the analysis of causes of death in London, he gave epidemiology a singular date of birth. This was exactly 350 years ago.

Source: Epidemiology

DOI: 10.1097/ede.0b013e31827b5359

Author: Alfredo Morabia

Institutions: Queens College, CUNY, City University of New York, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Historical and modern epidemiology studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Award: History of Epidemiology: Evolution and Contribution to Medicine and Public Health