Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death

by George Christakos, Ricardo A. Olea, Marc L. Serre

This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive interpretation, and innovative implementation. The text introduces a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic modelling, and implements it with a study of the infamous 14 th century AD Black Death disaster that killed at least one-fourth of the European population.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005