Philip Alcabes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Alcabes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Alcabes |
| SIGNATURE | ALCABES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Driven by Fear
Reviewed by: Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence by Guenter B. Risse Philip Alcabes Guenter B. Risse. Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. xiii + 298 pp. 1ll. $30.00 ( 978-0-252-08138-5). What's behind the impulse to isolate? An urge to commit murder against offenders isn't hard to understand (evidence that humans have…
Tobacco harm reduction
The risky gene
Alcabes examines how modern epidemiology views race, including a historical review and a critique of methods. Race occupies a central place in health discourse partly because of two misapprehensions. First, contemporary epidemiologic research focuses on individual behaviour as a determinant of disease risk, despite the fact that risk as predicted from epidemiologic data is solely interpretable for large populations, not for individuals. Historica…
Better models for Aids prevention
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Better models for Aids prevention
The risky gene
Alcabes examines how modern epidemiology views race, including a historical review and a critique of methods. Race occupies a central place in health discourse partly because of two misapprehensions. First, contemporary epidemiologic research focuses on individual behaviour as a determinant of disease risk, despite the fact that risk as predicted from epidemiologic data is solely interpretable for large populations, not for individuals. Historica…
Tobacco harm reduction
Driven by Fear
Reviewed by: Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence by Guenter B. Risse Philip Alcabes Guenter B. Risse. Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. xiii + 298 pp. 1ll. $30.00 ( 978-0-252-08138-5). What's behind the impulse to isolate? An urge to commit murder against offenders isn't hard to understand (evidence that humans have…
Medicine (4 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abstinence (1 works)