| FA-53395-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Gerald M. Oppenheimer | A History of the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. (1945-1990) | 1/1/2007 - 6/30/2007 | $24,000.00 | Gerald | M. | Oppenheimer | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | Brooklyn | NY | 11210-2850 | USA | 2006 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
My objective is to write the first half of a social and intellectual history of the origins, development and eventual diffusion of epidemiological thinking within the U.S. It will focus on heart disease, critical to the evolution of modern, post-war epidemiology, particularly its success in conceptualizing non-infectious chronic disease as the consequence of multiple “risks” within living societies, its creation of logical techniques and a mathematics to study such disorders, and its formulation, in the face of recurrent skepticism about risk factors and causality, of clinical and public health interventions. |