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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(4):717-719; doi:10.1093/ije/dym163
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Epidemiology needs the patients to survive

J W W Coebergh

Professor of Cancer Surveillance, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

E-mail: j.coebergh@erasmusmc.nl

Accepted 12 July 2007

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According to Pubmed, the pessimistic and rather emotional paper of Ken Rothman on the presumed rise and fall of epidemiology in 19801 was his 59th after being in the ‘business’ for almost 10 years. He was undoubtedly speaking on behalf of many of his colleagues at the time in expressing the threatened demise of his profession. By 2007, having become an influential teacher, he has been involved in 209 articles on a wide range of subjects, often in the domain of congenital defects, early life exposures, pharmaco-epidemiology and disease aetiology. In 1981, he was still optimistic enough to found the New England Epidemiology Institute which was to successfully train a large number of post-graduate students in the subsequent 20 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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