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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(11):1449-1451; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp322
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEWS

A Dictionary of Epidemiology, Fifth Edition

Edited by Miquel Porta

Jonathan M. Samet1, Heather Wipfli1, Elizabeth A. Platz2 and Nrupen Bhavsar2

1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute for Global Health, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
2 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205

(e-mail: eplatz@jhsph.edu)

ISBN-10: 0-19-531450-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531450-2, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, New York (Telephone: 212-726-6000, Website: http://www.oup.com/us/), 2008, 320 pp., $24.43 Paperback, $5.59 Kindle Edition

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Writing a dictionary involves special skills from special people. Even a superb dictionary will likely elicit comment and disagreement. Fortunately for epidemiologists, John Last and the International Epidemiological Association took on the development of a dictionary of epidemiology, and the first edition was published in 1983 (1). With this Fifth Edition (2), Miquel Porta has become the Editor, joined by Sander Greenland and John Last as Associate Editors. John Last deserves acknowledgment and gratitude for his superb work on A Dictionary of Epidemiology and the tradition of excellence that he established over the 4 editions that he edited.

Porta's approach follows that of Last, soliciting the collaboration of the broad community of epidemiologists. There are 166 contributors listed for the Fourth and Fifth Editions (2, 3). With this Fifth Edition, he turned to wiki technology that did not exist in 2001 when the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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