American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 11, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(10):1026; doi:10.1093/aje/kwk077
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Book Review |
Methods in Social Epidemiology Edited by J. Michael Oakes and Jay S. Kaufman
ISBN 0-7879-7989-9, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., San Francisco, California (Telephone: 800-956-7739, Fax: 317-572-4002, Website: http://www.josseybass.com), 2006, 504 pp., $65.00 (Hardcover)
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(e-mail: repro@pitt.edu)
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Aptly titled, Methods in Social Epidemiology focuses on a discussion of methodological challenges, with the intent to build a stronger foundation for social epidemiology. Unlike a handful of predecessor texts in this field, the book specifically avoids lengthy or encyclopedic examples and sticks to the discrete task