History of Epidemiology

compiled by B. Gerstman. (If you know of a link that should be included on this list, please email gerstman@email.sjsu.edu)

• Hippocrates (circa 400 BCE): On Airs, Waters, and Places
• Smallpox: the triumph over the most terrible of the ministers of death (Barquet & Domingo, 1997)
• John Graunt (1620 - 1674)
• John Graunt site (Ed Stephan, Western Washington University)
• Natural and Political Observations . . . on the Bills of Mortality (1662)
• James Lind (1716 - 1794): A Treatise of the Scurvy in Three Parts | Bio | BBC site
• William Farr: campaigning statistician (Stephen Halliday)
• John Snow: On the Mode and Communication of Cholera (2nd ed.) | UNC John Snow Case Study | UCLA Site | article by J. P. Vandenbroucke
• Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929) PBS site | NIH Exhibit  
• The Wade Hampton Frost Collection  
• Soz Praventivmed (Social and Preventive Medicine) History of Epidemiology Series (Recommended!)
• Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (1964)
• The Framingham Heart Study
• Wellcome Trust: Centre for the History of Medicine | Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
• Philosophers who have influenced epidemiologic thinking
• Francis Bacon (1561-1704)
• John Locke (1632-1704)
• George Berkeley (1685-1753)
• David Hume (1711-1776): An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | A Treatise of Human Nature | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
• Karl Popper (1902-1992):  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Karl Popper Web
• John Tukey (1915-2000): Memorial Page | Biography

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