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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:855.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

From the Editor: The First Epidemiology Textbook?—Continued

Warren Winkelstein

School of Public Health University of California Berkeley, CA 94720

In the October 1 issue of the Journal, when your Editor pontificated about "the first epidemiology textbook," he fortuitously appended a question mark to the title of his commentary (1). Thus, he may be excused for misstating the case for the priority of Major Greenwood’s Epidemics and Crowd-Diseases: An Introduction to the Study of Epidemiology (2). More importantly, that editorial note stimulated the two extended commentaries by Bracken (3) and Lilienfeld (4) which follow. These carefully crafted book reviews, augmenting your Editor’s previous comments, provide Journal readers with a quite comprehensive examination of this important phase of the development of epidemiologic theory and practice.

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  1. Winkelstein W Jr. From the editor: the first epidemiology textbook? (Editorial). Am J Epidemiol 2002;156:684.[Free Full Text]
  2. Greenwood M. Epidemics and crowd-diseases: an introduction to the study of epidemiology. London, United Kingdom: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1935.
  3. Bracken MB. The first epidemiologic text. Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:855–6.[Free Full Text]
  4. Lilienfeld DE. The first epidemiology textbook, revisited. Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:856–7.[Free Full Text]

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