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Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology, Second Edition
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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By Harvey Checkoway, Neil Pearce, and David Kriebel
ISBN 0-19-509242-2, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: orders@oup-usa.org, Website: http//:www.oup.com/us), 2004, 392 pp., $45 (hardcover)
What distinguishes the field of occupational epidemiology? It is, as the authors of Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology (1) suggest, a subdiscipline of epidemiology that is defined in part by a specific population of interest, workers, in some cases by distinctive diseases, such as silicosis or asbestosis, and in others by distinctive routes of exposure. These distinguishing features result