Epidemiology

The word epidemiology comes from the Greek words epi, meaning on or upon, demos, meaning people, and logos, meaning the study of. In other words, the word epidemiology has its roots in the study of what befalls a population.

Epidemiology, a branch of Public Health, is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to the management of patients in whom disease has already developed.

The Ghost Map
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Demon in the Freezer
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Plagues and Peoples
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Trouble by Deborah HopkinsonFilth by William A. CohenPandemic by Sonia ShahCholera by Amanda J. Thomas
Broad Street Cholera Epidemic
15 books — 6 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreSpillover by David Quammen
Public Health Must Reads
39 books — 20 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
164 books — 69 voters


Chris von Csefalvay
higher antimicrobial loads will result in a lower total pathogenic load but also a lower involvement of the immune system and therefore less immunity in the long run (as indeed has been empirically demonstrated in a number of experiments summarised in a sweeping review by Benoun (2016)). Thus, while rapid and aggressive antimicrobial treatment is sometimes appropriate, the long-term absence of ensuing CD4+ immunity is its cost.
Chris von Csefalvay, Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python

Ben Goldacre
[...] I’m very grateful to all the many companies and people who, by their optimistically bad behaviour under fire, have given narrative colour to what might otherwise have been some very dry explanations of basic statistical principles.
Ben Goldacre, I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That

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