Causality and Conditionality in Medicine around 1900

Glossary: causality in public health science

“…German medical scientists soon saw that the postulates do not allow for the operation of multiple causes—nor indeed do they cater for causal relations not susceptible to experimentation. They established a 20th century consensus about multifactorial causality,17 an idea that did not penetrate Anglophone epidemiology until mid-century.…”