The hygienic hypothesis and transformations in etiological knowledge
From Causal Ontology to Ontogenesis of the Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5223797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dina Czeresnia (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1168-1176 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-311x2005000400019 |
| PMID | 16021254 |
| OpenAlex | W2148320565 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-311X2005000400019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
The objective of this article is to systematize the principal recent research results pertaining to the so-called hygienic hypothesis, which establishes an etiological link between the increasing incidence of allergic diseases and the decreasing incidence of infectious diseases in the industrialized countries of the Western world. The author contends that the current debate on the hygienic hypothesis indicates significant transformations in the understanding of disease etiology, perhaps even as important as the transformations in the 19th century during the process leading to the constitution of modern medicine and the identification of infectious disease causal agents
Constitution · Disease · Etiology · Incidence (geometry) · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Pathology · Political science · Principal (computer security) · Computer Science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |