Week 3
**NOTE: Class starts at 5.30 and goes to 8 on this date**
3. (9/19) Phenomena: Exploring the "natural history" of
disease
Idea: Detailed observation (like a naturalist) or detective
work--albeit informed by theoretical ideas--may be needed before we can
characterize what the phenomenon is we are studying, what questions we
need to ask, and what categories we need for subsequent data collection
and analysis.
Cases: John Snow on cholera; Barker on buruli disease, fetal origins of
later diseases, and the anomalous French cardiovascular disease rate;
Origins of 1918 flu pandemic
Readings: Brody 2000; Barker 1971, Barker 1998,pp1-12, 167-172, Barker
1999; Oxford 2005
PBS Video on 1918 flu epidemic
(excerpt)
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