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“Funny” story: the US used to have a whole industry of private investigative epidemiologists people could hire to trace the source of their illness.
Why? Because there used to be a lot more really awful infectious diseases and people are willing to pay when the stakes are high.
Why? Because there used to be a lot more really awful infectious diseases and people are willing to pay when the stakes are high.
Morale of this story: when rich people don’t have good options to protect themselves and their families, capitalism finds a way.
We have good tools we could use. But if we don’t use them, people are very likely going to get litigative.
We have good tools we could use. But if we don’t use them, people are very likely going to get litigative.
Curious to read more? I recommend Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. By Judith Walzer Leavitt 
I found the discussion of Quetelet and populations at the beginning of Chapter 3 of Epidemiology and the People’s Health particularly instructive, especially for genetic epidemiology. #epibookclub #epipeopleshealth #gwas #genepitwitter 1/18
The question “who—or what—determines populations or groups that merit comparison” is an important but tetchy one. 2/18
The concept of “population stratification bias” in genetic epidemiology is usually introduced using a toy example: say we’re studying two populations, with random mating within but no mating across populations. 3/18
