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The Case–Control Method on Trial: The “Bermuda Summit Peace Conference” (1978)

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In 1978 was held in Bermuda a symposium on the case-control study in epidemiology. If the “Bermuda conference” has so far escaped historians of science’s attention, it could however shed a new light on the history of epidemiology and medicine. This chapter starts with a short introduction to the history of case-control studies and a discussion on the controversies that surrounded their emergence in the 1950s. It then describes the main lines of tensions present in the Bermuda conference and interprets them in the light of the broader history of classical (1945–1965) and modern epidemiology (after 1965). It also discusses the impact of the conference on epidemiology in the 1980s and beyond. It aims to show that what was at stake at the Bermuda conference was not only the viability of the case-control studies but also the epistemic status of observational studies and, ultimately, the usefulness of the tools of populational epidemiology for medical science.
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hal-04113370 , version 1 (01-06-2023)

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Nicolas Brault. The Case–Control Method on Trial: The “Bermuda Summit Peace Conference” (1978). Heini Hakosalo; Katariina Parhi; Annukka Sailo. Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies, Springer International Publishing, pp.55-72, 2023, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History, 978-3-031-20670-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-20671-9_3⟩. ⟨hal-04113370⟩
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