Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epidemiology, identifying traps and setting out the benefits of properly understanding this fascinating and important discipline, as well as providing the means to do so.

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University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Alex Broadbent

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Alex Broadbent is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Formerly he lectured and studied at the University of Cambridge. He is devoted to bringing philosophical reasoning to bear on practical problems, and has published in philosophy, epidemiology and legal theory journals.

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Book Title: Philosophy of Epidemiology
Authors: Alex Broadbent
Series Title: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315601
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35512-5Published: 11 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34685-1Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31560-1Published: 10 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-6828
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 203
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Public Health, Social Philosophy, Epidemiology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Epistemology

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