Wild clocks: preface and glossary

PREFACE

Preface

PREFACE

Glossary A glossary for social epidemiology

Why “social epidemiology”? Is not all epidemiology, after all, “social” epidemiology? In so far as people are simultaneously social and biological organisms, is any biological process ever expressed devoid of social context?—or any social process ever unmediated by the corporal reality of our profoundly generative and mortal bodies? 2 Yet, despite the seeming truism that social as well as biolo...

Glossary Glossary on meta-analysis

Bias, language: the systematic error introduced when the search of potential studies to be included in a meta-analysis is focused, in general, in one language (mainly English). Given that studies published in English are more widely read, it is possible that significant results of studies carried out in non-English countries are more published in English journals than in journals written in oth...