On Types of Scientific Enquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning

The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Freedman, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beriberi; Causal process observations; Cholera; Christiaan Eijkman; Edward Jenner; Ignac Semmelweis; John Snow; Puerperal fever; Qualitative reasoning; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924050629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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