Synopses & Reviews
This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster." "Typhoon", a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while "The Secret Sharer" excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears.
Conrad's experiences as a captain of the ship Otago in 1888 provided material for both "The Secret Sharer" and "Falk". "Amy Foster", written in 1901, is bleak and stark in its depiction of human isolation and incomprehension.
In a range of tones extending from the sombre to the radiant, Conrad's central preoccupations are displayed at their best, strangest, and most plangent in this selection of stories.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Biologic and Statistical Concepts
3. Sources of Routinely Collected Data on Disease Occurrence
4. Prospective Cohort Studies I: Planning and Execution
5. Prospective Cohort Studies II: Further Design Considerations and Analysis
6. Retrospective Cohort Studies
7. Case-Control Studies
8. Cross-Sectional and Other Types of Studies
9. Epidemic Investigation
10. Methods of Sampling and Estimation of Sample Size
11. Measurement Error
12. Measurement I: Questionnaires
13. Measurement II: Other Types of Measurement