Main description:

This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are conceptualized and controlled, and, more generally, on the way that people in modern societies think about health, behavior, longevity, and risk. This collection consists of a series of in-depth analyses of the roots, development, and impact of epidemiological research, illuminating the complex relationship between medical research and data on the one hand, and social and cultural factors on the other. The thematical and geographical scope of the book ranges from indigenous and participant perspectives to the visualization of pandemics, and from Circumpolar North to East Africa. The book identifies significant historical changes and the driving forces behind them, charting forms of science-society interaction that characterize modern epidemiology.

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Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Past Continuous of Epidemiology.- Part I: Patterns.- Chapter 2: Patterning Tuberculosis: Interwar Tuberculosis Research as a Bridge between Infectious and Risk Factor Epidemiology.- Chapter 3: Nicolas Brault. The Case-Control Method on Trial: The "Bermuda Summit Peace Conference" (1978).- Chapter 4: The Coexistent Temporalities: Multilayered Ethics in Birth Cohort Studies.- Part II: Populations.- Chapter 5: The Oxford Nutrition Survey (1941-50): Its Rise and Fall under Hugh Sinclair.- Chapter 6: Spotlighted or Hidden in Plain Sight: Consequences of the Post-War Ban on Ethnic Registration in Sweden.- Chapter 7: Risk Factor Epidemiology Viewed from Below: Lay Reception of the North Karelia Project (Finland) in the 1970s and early 1980s.- Chapter 8: From Colonial Medicine to Global Health: Epidemiologies of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in in East and Central Africa.- Part III: Pathologies.- Chapter 9: Light Pollution: Auroral Displays, Environmental Carcinogens and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer.- Chapter 10: Scientized Politics: Finnish Basic Income Trial as a Quest for Experimental Truth.- Chapter 11: Virus-Imagery: A Short History of Pandemic Mis-Representation, HIV to COVID-19.