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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(1):124-125; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn373
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEW

Environmental Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

By Ray M. Merrill

Harvey Checkoway

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105-7234

(e-mail: checko@u.washington.edu)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-4152-5, ISBN-10: 0-7637-4152-3, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Massachusetts (Telephone: 978-443-5000, Fax: 978-443-8000, Website: http://www.jbpub.com), 2008, 483 pp., $64.95 Softcover

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There is a long legacy of epidemiologic research on environmental determinants of disease, arguably beginning in the modern era with John Snow's investigations of drinking water as the cause of the London cholera epidemic in the 1850s. Environmental epidemiology has, in fact, experienced somewhat of a renaissance during the past 20 years, as public concerns and academic interests have grown regarding the potential health consequences of air, water, soil, and food contaminants, as well as those related to environmental conditions that occur . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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