Modeling population health: Reflections on the performativity of epidemiological techniques in the age of genomics modeling population health

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 510-530

  Bauer, Susanne ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calculative techniques; Epidemiology; Performativity; Risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATIVE TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMATIVITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CALCULATIVE TECHNIQUES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PERFORMATIVITY; RISK;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84894786830     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12054     Document Type: Article

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