The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
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  1. Quotes from author interview with Dean Eckles, August 2017.

  2. Editorial, ‘Epidemiology is a science of high importance’, Nature
    Communications, 2018.

  3. Background on smoking and cancer from: Howick J. et al., ‘The
    evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill’s
    “guidelines for causation” contribute?’, Journal of the Royal
    Society of Medicine, 2009; Mourant A., ‘Why Arthur Mourant
    Decided To Say “No” To Ronald Fisher’, The Scientist, 12
    December 1988.

  4. Background from: Ross R., Memoirs, With a Full Account of the
    Great Malaria Problem and its Solution (London, 1923).

  5. Racaniello V., ‘Koch’s postulates in the 21st century’, Virology
    Blog, 22 January 2010.

  6. Alice Stewart’s obituary, The Telegraph, 16 August 2002.

  7. Rasmussen S.A. et al., ‘Zika Virus and Birth Defects –
    Reviewing the Evidence for Causality’, NEJM, 2016.

  8. Greene G., The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart
    and the Secrets of Radiation (University of Michigan Press,
    2001).

  9. Background and quotes from author interview with Nicholas
    Christakis, June 2018.

  10. Snijders T.A.B., ‘The Spread of Evidence-Poor Medicine via
    Flawed Social-Network Analysis’, SOCNET Archives, 17 June
    2011.

  11. Granovetter M.S., ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’, American
    Journal of Sociology, 1973.

  12. Dhand A., ‘Social networks and risk of delayed hospital arrival
    after acute stroke’, Nature Communications, 2019.

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