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American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 160(6):605-606; doi:10.1093/aje/kwh246
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Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

David M. Morens

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-6603

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ISBN 0-19-513544-X, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-451-7556, Fax: 919-677-1303, Website: http://www.us.oup.com/us/), 2003, 437 pp., $49.95 (hardcover)

The absence of a comprehensive history of epidemiology must in part reflect epidemiology’s initial appearance as a public health problem-solving tool that was seemingly (as Thomas Huxley once said of science in general) "nothing but trained and organized common sense" (Huxley’s emphasis (1)). Thus, in searching for missing forefathers, modern epidemiologists keep looking for historical heroes who once did what we would like to think we would do now. John Snow (1813–1858) is a worthy forefather, not just because he (mostly) got it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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