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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(6):1180-1184; doi:10.1093/ije/dym229
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Calculating health and social change: an essay on Jerry Morris and Late-modernist epidemiology

Dorothy Porter

Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

E-mail: PorterD@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Accepted 3 September 2007

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The 50 years since Jerry Morris published his seminal work on Uses of Epidemiology in 19571 have witnessed significant transformations in and for the discipline of epidemiology. Not only have there been internal intellectual changes but significant transformations have also taken place in the external relations of the discipline. That is, the relationship of the discipline to the social and political environments of health that it dissects, constructs and is constructed by. Morris's foundational book, and the essay bearing the same name he published in the British Medical Journal 2 years earlier,2 created a platform for the discipline that linked epidemiological knowledge and the rational values on which it was based overtly to its function in the social reform of health.3 Values and functions were integrated by Morris in the deconstruction of the ‘burden of disease’; the use of population analysis as an aetiological method; in providing evidence on which . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Needs and structures
 

   The chances of a healthy life
 

   Epidemiological modernism and the new public health
 

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