American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on October 12, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwm285
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Morabia Responds to "The Context and Challenge of von Pettenkofer's Contributions to Epidemiology"
From the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY
Correspondence to Dr. Alfredo Morabia, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11365 (e-mail: alfredo.morabia@qc.cuny.edu).
Received for publication August 16, 2007. Accepted for publication August 30, 2007.
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In their invited commentary, Oppenheimer and Susser (1) have exquisitely synthesized the issues at stake. They abundantly cite Evans's book (2), which should belong in every epidemiology curriculum (3). In their last paragraph, Oppenheimer and Susser mention a possible disagreement with me for not having specified that, in von Pettenkofer's view, interactions could have taken place at both the individual and the societal levels. It was definitely not my intention