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Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model

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History of the Human Sciences

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Abstract

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article traces the history of the Susceptible, Infected, Recovered (SIR) model in early 20th-century epidemiology (1904–27). The aim is to test the hypothesis that the active stance taken by Ross, Hudson, McKendrick, and Kermack represents a turn in ...