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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on June 29, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(3):290-291; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi186
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved

BOOK REVIEW

Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880–1938: Up to the Mountain By Thomas M. Daniel

ISBN 1-58046-177-8, University of Rochester Press, Rochester, New York (Telephone: 585-275-0419, Fax: 585-271-8778, E-mail: boydell@boydellusa.net, Website: http://www.urpress.com/80461778.HTM), 2004, 264 pp., $45.00 (Hardback)

Elaine H. Morrato

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205

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"Few have taught us more when we have gone to the mountain and walked in their ways" (1Go, p. 198)—so summarizes Thomas M. Daniel's new biography of Wade Hampton Frost. As Daniel notes, Frost is a "little known...major academic medical figure" (1Go, p. xvi) from whom much can still be learned and admired by modern students of epidemiology. Epidemiologists routinely apply the concepts of identifying index cases, of using life-table methodology to express incidence in person-years and to estimate secondary attack rates, and of representing an epidemic in mathematical terms; however, few recall the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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