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Causation and Disease

A Chronological Journey

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  • © 1993

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  1. Alfred S. Evans

    1. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Concepts and Background of Causation

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 1-11

  3. Causation and Bacterial Diseases

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 13-39

  4. Causation and Acute Viral Diseases

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 41-68

  5. Slow and Persistent Viral Infections

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 69-86

  6. Viruses and Cancer

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 87-112

  7. Causation of Epidemics and Immunological Diseases

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 113-121

  8. Limitations of the Henle—Koch Postulates

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 123-146

  9. Challenges to the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in the Next Decade

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 147-166

  10. Causation and Chronic Diseases

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 167-176

  11. Causation and Occupational Diseases

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 177-205

  12. The Clinical Illness Promotion Factor

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 207-214

  13. Subclinical Epidemiology

    • Alfred S. Evans
    Pages 215-228

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-238
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About this book

In the front material of this book both a foreword and a preface appear. What the content of a preface should be is well understood. It is the author's retrospective account of intent, of the labors to accomplish that intent, and of the content of the book that resulted. What a foreword should be is less obvious. Most properly, it is perhaps the brief testimony of one who knows the accomplishments of the author and the scope of the field and who may direct readers to the book. On some basis, the writer is assumed to have earned the right to undertake such a task. To undertake the writing of a foreword for so considerable a researcher, teacher, and scholar as Alfred Evans can be seen not only as an honor but also as a daunting one. My first thought, in truth, is that this wine needs no blush and that no foreword is needed. As John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology at Yale, Alfred Evans has an established reputation in the field of causality. We have learned from his insights about the evolution of causal thinking as epidemiology passed from the era of the germ theory into that of the search for causes of chronic noncontagious diseases. It was he who drew attention to the effect of specific context in that evolution.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Alfred S. Evans

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Causation and Disease

  • Book Subtitle: A Chronological Journey

  • Authors: Alfred S. Evans

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3024-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44283-4Published: 01 April 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6318-7Published: 24 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3024-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 238

  • Topics: Pathology, Internal Medicine, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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