Broadbent, Alex
Philosophy of Epidemiology
Table of contents
1. Why Philosophy of Epidemiology?
Alex Broadbent
2. Philosophical and Epidemiological Basics
Alex Broadbent
3. The Causal Interpretation Problem
Alex Broadbent
4. Causal Inference, Translation, and Stability
Alex Broadbent
5. Stable Causal Inference
Alex Broadbent
6. Prediction
Alex Broadbent
7. Making and Assessing Epidemiological Predictions
Alex Broadbent
8. Puzzles of Attributability
Alex Broadbent
9. Risk Relativism, Interaction, and the Shadow of Physics
Alex Broadbent
10. Multifactorialism and Beyond
Alex Broadbent
11. Epidemiology and the Law
Alex Broadbent
12. Conclusion: Thinking Is Good for You
Alex Broadbent
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Public Health, Social Philosophy, Epidemiology, Science, general, Epistemology
- Author(s)
- Broadbent, Alex
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
- Page amount
- 225 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137315601
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34685-1
