
Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease Hardcover – June 18, 2013
Author: Visit Amazon's Michael B. Bracken Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0300188846 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Review
“Risk, Chance, and Causation is remarkable for a text covering such technical and scientific subject matter…Bracken provides his audience with an engaging, entertaining and educational read.”—Audrey F. Saftlas, University of Iowa
(Audrey Saftlas 2012-09-27)“The book is very enjoyable to read, and the author has successfully diversified the cold scientific topics with anecdotal material and popular quotes.”—John P. A. Ioannidis, Stanford University
(John P. A. Ioannidis 2012-09-27)"This book is a great read for almost anyone, from the interested lay reader to the experienced epidemiologist. We are quickly drawn into to the foundation of epidemiologic science and thinking by way of stories, cautionary tales and numerous examples, from both history and current events. Whether you are a practitioner, teacher, student, or you just happen to pick up the book, you will be certain to find Bracken’s stories compelling and even eye-opening."—Kay Dickersin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
(Kay Dickerson 2013-01-28)"Using a great range of examples, Michael Bracken provides a masterful guide to identifying the many false claims about what makes humans healthy or sick. This book should be required reading for all in the media who try to explain health studies to the public."—Nigel Paneth, University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
(Nigel Paneth 2013-02-21)"This book is a credit to epidemiology and an exciting and joyful read for lay and learned readers alike.”—Geir W. Jacobsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(Geir W. Jacobsen 2013-02-22)“This extensively documented book deserves a wide readership.”—Choice
(Choice)“If you would like a book to offer to a thoughtful and open-minded person unfamiliar with how epidemiologists and statisticians develop, process, and think about human health and information, this is a very good choice. Public understanding of science would be much advanced if this book were to be required reading in courses in science and journalism.”—Nigel Paneth, The Lancet
(Nigel Paneth The Lancet) About the Author
Michael B. Bracken is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University. He is a founder of the evidence-based medicine and health care movement and a former president of the Society for Epidemiological Research and of the American College of Epidemiology.
Books with free ebook downloads available Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease Hardcover – June 18, 2013
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (June 18, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300188846
- ISBN-13: 978-0300188844
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #812,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Hardly a week passes, it seems, without a news report touting the latest research linking some (food, vitamin, mineral, lifestyle factor) to your health (or its opposite). Typically, such reports take the form of "Consuming (Doing) `X' reduces (increases) risk of (cancer, heart disease, premature death) by "Y"%.
Well, in the interest of seeing where I stand, health-wise, I've been keeping track of these reports (and those percentages) for some time. By simple addition, I figure I have about a 137% chance of dying before any age-and-gender peer who: last consumed saturated fat at his mother's breast, avoids red meat and grilled bratwurst like the plague, has never smoked, exercises 30 minutes each day, never met a veggie he didn't like, consumes whole grains at every meal, gets a solid eight hours of sleep each night, and has a single glass of (red) wine every so often.
OK, just kidding. That's not the way it works. But those reports are scary or--worse--contradictory. Today's health fact is tomorrow's artifact. Who--and what--can you believe? After a while, it almost seems best to ignore any such reports as essentially useless, the results of what has come to be called "junk science" (by, for example, Steven Milloy, in his book, Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams).
Question: Who are the scientists, and science, behind this endless stream of ever-changing health news? Answer: Epidemiologists, and Epidemiology. Epidemiology is defined as `the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health," according to my trusty Google search.
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