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Preface Chapter 1: Does Epidemiologic Theory Exist? - on science, data, and explaining disease distribution Chapter 2: Health in the Balance: early theories about patterns of disease occurrence Chapter 3: Epidemiology Emerges: early theories and debating determinants of disease distribution - poison, filth, class & race (1600-1900) Chapter 4: Epidemiology Expands: germs, genes, and the (social) environment (1900-1950) Chapter 5: Contemporary Mainstream Epidemiologic Theory: biomedical & lifestyle Chapter 6: Social Epidemiologic Alternatives: sociopolitical and psychosocial frameworks Chapter 7: Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution: embodying societal & ecologic context Chapter 8: Epidemiologic Theory Counts: harm, knowledge, action and the people's health
A 2011 study studied this question.