| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Miettinen, O. S. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-19T10:29:00Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-19T10:29:00Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-94-007-1171-6 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/92 | - |
| dc.description | Epidemiological research is concretely purposive – rather than merely interest-
driven – when its aim is to advance the knowledge-base – scientific – of the practice
of epidemiology – of community medicine, that is. Such research is quintessentially
‘applied’ [16]. It addresses rates, etiologically and otherwise; for, rates of the occur-
rence of illness are the objects of the practice of epidemiology: the practitioner’s
concerns are to know about them in the cared-for population and, then, to control
them (by the means of community-level preventive medicine).
The knowledge-base of (the practice of) clinical medicine is not about rates
but about probabilities [16]; but research on probabilities is about (probability-
implying) rates. Therefore, quintessentially ‘applied’ clinical research is meta-
epidemiological in nature, and it thus has become a concern of teachers of
epidemiological research [16, 17]. It is a concern in the I.E.A. dictionary, and so
it also is here. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This book is, mainly, a dictionary in that meaning, with terms of American
English – and some of their initials-based abbreviations also – addressed in alpha-
betical order; but it also is designed – by the proposed selection from among the
terms and the proposed ordering of these – to function as a textbook in an intro-
ductory course on epidemiological research (see Introduction below). A term is, in
logic and also in that word’s usage here, a word or a composite of words – such as
‘epidemiological research’ – that can be the subject or predicate of a proposition [1].
The “specialized information” that this book gives about the terms it covers is
their meanings, that is, the concepts to which they refer. This information is, in
part, merely descriptive of prevailing terms and the concepts to which they refer;
but it commonly also is quasi-prescriptive, conveying my opinion of what the term
or the concept, or both, ought to be. A concept is the essence of a thing (entity,
quality/quantity, relation); it is true of every instance of the thing and unique to it [1].
A concept is specified by its definition, which – in an ideal definition at least –
posits the concept’s “proximate genus” together with its “specific difference” within
this genus [1]. For epidemiological research the proximate genus obviously is
research; but the specific difference – true of every instance of this research and
unique to this particular genre of research – scarcely is a matter of shared under-
standing among, even, teachers of this research. In this book, many of the definitions
are supplemented by explications of their meanings, as I see them – extensive
explications, even | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Epidemiological Research | en_US |
| dc.subject | Epidemiological | en_US |
| dc.title | Epidemiological Research | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Terms and Concepts | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE
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