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Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Story of John Snow and the Origins of Epidemiology

The classic story of epidemiology usually begins, right with john snow an the broad pump in the london cholera epidemic of the 18 fifties. But that story is really only a small piece of the puzzle of how epidemiology truly began. What i would add is that he is not a lonely pioneer, sort of courageously a going into the a poor neighbourhood in london to search for a cotfor te s of cholera watl cause it to spread. He's part of a group of doctors who've been studying the origins of epidemics from the 18 thirties, 18 forties and even earlier. Their methods did not develop purely out of laboratory science

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