International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1-11
© International Epidemiological Association 2001
Editorial |
Epidemiology—is it time to call it a day?
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.
The advent of the new millennium prompted various discussions of the future of academic disciplines, including epidemiology and other public health sciences.1–5 We missed this opportunity to make prognostications, but have chosen this first issue of 2001 for our initial editorial comment since, having succeeded Professor Peter Pharoah as editors of the International Journal of Epidemiology, this is the first issue which exclusively contains material which we have processed from the Bristol, UK, office. Of course Peter's remarkable record as editor of the IJE is difficult to follow, a fact reflected in the need for two of us to attempt to complete the tasks so admirably carried out by Peter alone.
Although millennia are clear socio-cultural constructs, their expiry provides an excuse for making sweeping statements about the past and future which natural reticence would (and probably should) constrain at other times. However because such phenomena can be considered as
Contributions and contexts of epidemiological advances
Cholera: getting it right for the right reason?
Smoking: the end of an epidemic or new vistas for the little white slayer?
Fetal origins of adult disease: the rebirth of social physiology?
Ageing populations in the developing world: the paradox of success
Population and clinical epidemiology
False alarms or no alarms?
Peptic ulcer: failing to take the final step?
Micronutrients, hormones and health: abstractions too far?
Moving on: advancing or retreating into the 21st century?
Genes—explaining all of it or none of it?
Saved from irrelevance by new methodologies?
How will the IJE attempt to remain of relevance?
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