Causation and Disease: A Chronological JourneySpringer Science & Business Media, 1993 - 238 pagina's A historical review of the evolution of concepts, postulates and guidelines concerning disease causation from early germ theory to current work in the area of chronic noncontagious diseases. Students and researchers in epidemiology, clinical medicine, microbiology and related fields will value discussion of changing criteria as these apply to speci |
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Inhoudsopgave
Concepts and Background of Causation Causality in the Natural Sciences | 1 |
Concepts of Contagion | 2 |
Epidemiology and Causation | 3 |
Scurvy | 4 |
Cholera | 5 |
Puerperal Sepsis | 7 |
The Age of Bacteriological Discovery | 8 |
References | 11 |
Limitations of the Henle Koch Postulates Effect of New Concepts and of Technology | 123 |
Factors Directly Limiting the HenleKoch Postulates as Originally Stated | 124 |
Introduction | 128 |
Bacteriology | 129 |
Virology | 132 |
Immunology | 140 |
References | 142 |
Challenges to the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in the Next Decade | 147 |
Causation and Bacterial Diseases | 13 |
Edwin Klebs | 15 |
Robert Koch | 18 |
New Diseases | 31 |
Legionnaires Disease | 32 |
Lyme Disease | 34 |
References | 37 |
Causation and Acute Viral Diseases | 41 |
The Epidemiological Concept | 43 |
Agents in Search of Disease | 46 |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome AIDS | 53 |
References | 65 |
Slow and Persistent Viral Infections Introduction | 69 |
Chronic CNS Diseases Due to Conventional Viruses | 76 |
Subacute Sclerosing Pan Encephalitis SSPE | 77 |
New Challenges | 79 |
Summary | 83 |
References | 84 |
Viruses and Cancer | 87 |
Burkitts Lymphoma | 91 |
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma | 95 |
Hodgkins Disease | 96 |
NonHodgkins Lymphoma | 97 |
Hepatitis B Virus HBV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma HCC | 98 |
Genital Herpes Papillomaviruses and Cervical Cancer | 101 |
Human Tcell Leukemia Virus Type I HTLVI and Tcell Leukemia | 105 |
Summary | 107 |
References | 108 |
Causation of Epidemics and Immunological Diseases | 113 |
Immunological Diseases | 115 |
Immunological Nature of a Disease | 116 |
Relation of Pathological Changes to Autoimmunization | 118 |
Criteria for ImmuneMediated Disease | 120 |
Other Infectious Agents | 151 |
Immunization Programs | 154 |
Emergence of New Viruses and New Viral Infections | 158 |
Early Diagnosis and Detection | 162 |
Other Challenges in Infectious Disease Epidemiology | 164 |
References | 165 |
Causation and Chronic Diseases | 167 |
Toward a Unified Concept | 172 |
References | 175 |
Causation and Occupational Diseases Introduction | 177 |
Epidemiological Issues | 178 |
Legal Issues | 181 |
Causation and the Law | 183 |
Elements of Causal Proof in the Law | 184 |
Guidelines for Causation in Occupational Diseases | 186 |
Limitations and Applications | 194 |
Current Examples of Toxic Tort Litigation | 196 |
Agent Orange | 197 |
Swine Flu Vaccine and the GuillainBarre Syndrome | 198 |
Possible Modifications of the System | 200 |
Summary | 203 |
References | 204 |
The Clinical Illness Promotion Factor A Third Ingredient | 207 |
Acute Infectious Diseases | 208 |
Viruses and Cancer | 210 |
Viruses and Chronic Disease | 212 |
Discussion | 213 |
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Subclinical Epidemiology | 215 |
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Epilogue | 229 |
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