Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:856-857.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
BOOK REVIEWS |
The First Epidemiology Textbook, Revisited
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Global Epidemiology and Outcomes Research Pharmaceutical Research Institute Princeton, NJ 08543
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
The city of Liverpool, England, has contributed much to the development of epidemiology and public health. The city was the first (in 1847) in the United Kingdom to have a Medical Officer of Health, William Henry Duncan, for whom both the annual Duncan Memorial Lecture and the Duncan Society (dedicated to the advancement of public health) are named. In 1931, one of Duncan’s successors, Clare Oswald Stallybrass, authored the earliest known epidemiology textbook, The Principles of Epidemiology and the Process of Infection (1). At 696 pages (649 pages of text, the rest indices), the book addressed its subject matter in considerable depth. What do we know of the
CiteULike 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  G. M. Oppenheimer and E. Susser Invited Commentary: The Context and Challenge of von Pettenkofer's Contributions to Epidemiology Am. J. Epidemiol., December 1, 2007; 166(11): 1239 - 1241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
W. Winkelstein From the Editor: The First Epidemiology Textbook?--Continued Am. J. Epidemiol., May 1, 2003; 157(9): 855 - 855. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|