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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):494-495; doi:10.1093/ije/dym078
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Missed Opportunities

James C Riley

Department of History, Indiana University, 1020 E. Kirkwood, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA.

E-mail: rileyj@indiana.edu

Accepted 10 April 2006

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If only we could sometimes go back and redirect the path of scholarship. Of course we cannot. Even when lives are at stake, as they are in finding the most effective policies to enhance survival, all we can do is to make the best judgments we can at each moment.

Consider some alternative paths suggested by Samuel Preston's 1975 essay, ‘The Changing Relationship between Mortality and Level of Economic Development’1 with its ISI Web of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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