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Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology
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The Birth of Epidemiology
The shifting definitions of disease, or the boundaries around disease classification are always change ing. It's a topicthat we've talked about before in the context of symptoms versus signs and how that shift of being able to measure these signs like temperature or heart rate, that kind of took the at on away from the patient. And i feel like it's all still but it's still happening. But one of the things i thought was really interesting in your book is that it kind of went up into right before germ theory became a thing started. There were these hypotheses, or these prevailing notions of the way disease spread, namely, miasma theory or contagion theory. Can you talk about how those
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