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James C. Thomas was born in Mississippi in 1941 to an 18-year-old sharecropper. He didn't know his biological father until he was 15. A high school dropout, he grew up in dire poverty in the pre-Civil Rights south, chopping and picking cotton for ten hours a day, eight months of the year. Yet Thomas overcame these difficult beginnings to enjoy a successful career in government service and business. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at age 33, went to work for the Madison city government as the first black assistant mayor in the city's history. He later opened Madison's first African-American art gallery and with his family started a multi-service pain management and treat...
The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propogated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless itinerary and occasional public pageants, provided the framework for cultural activity in its widest sense. Fine art, architecture, scholarship, literature, music and piety jostled for attention alongside hunting, feasting, jousting, politics, diplomacy and war.
This is the first comprehensive text on the methodological issues in epidemiologic research on infectious diseases. It will be an invaluable resource both to students of epidemiology and to established researchers. The authors address such questions as: What needs to be considered when enrolling participants in a study of sexually transmitted diseases? What are common sources of measurement error in population-based studies of respiratory infections? What are some sources of existing data for epidemiologic studies of infectious diseases? Answers to these and many other related questions can be found in this well-organized, comprehensive and authoritative volume - the first to thoroughly addr...
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