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THE
EPIDEMY

A History of
Epidemiological Reasoning

Research by Lukas Engelmann, funded by the ERC, located at University of Edinburgh

What was Epidemiology?

Funded by the European Research Council, this project examines the history of epidemiology in the twentieth century. It asks how epidemiological knowledge has been produced, how it became powerful and who could speak in its name.

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Project themes

Modelling

Modelling

What do models do in Epidemiology?

 

Correlation

How do factors connect, how to correlate for instance temperature, humidity, wind velocity and clouds with the plague? 

Correlation
Configuration

Configuration

Who speaks and who poses as an expert in epidemiological knowledge?

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 The project, featured on this website, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 947872

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