Biology Quote by Paul W. Ewald

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

— Wilfred Trotter

“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there are causes…

— David S. Kidder

The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about…

— Devra Davis

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try…

— Andrea Barrett

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on…

— Walter Gilbert

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent…

— Shinya Yamanaka

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

— Susan Sontag

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

“People try to treat their illnesses without first trying to understand the cause of them. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can…

— Suzy Kassem

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

— Jill Lepore

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have…

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, and bacterial…

— Charles C. Mann