Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
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Biography Historical Article
Changing images of John Snow in the history of epidemiology.
Ever since the end of the 19th century, the story of John Snow and his investigations into the contagiousness of cholera has fascinated epidemiologists. Several different lessons have been extracted from the interpretation and reinterpretation of Snow's work--according to prevailing insights. The story of John Snow continues to evolve, even into the 21st century.
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Biography Historical Article
The changing assessments of John Snow's and William Farr's cholera studies.
This article describes the epidemiological studies of cholera by two major British investigators of the mid-nineteenth century, John Snow and William Farr, and it asks why the assessments of their results by contemporaries was the reverse of our assessment today. In the 1840s and 1850s Farr's work was considered definitive, while Snow's was regarded as ingenious but flawed. ⋯ A major change in thinking about disease causation was needed before Snow's work could be widely accepted. William Farr's later studies contributed to that acceptance.
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Editorial Comment Biography Historical Article
Snow and Farr: a scientific duet.