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IJE Advance Access published online on August 1, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym151
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Epidemiology still ascendant

Kenneth J Rothman

RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

E-mail: krothman@rti.org

Accepted 4 June 2007

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Though published in 1981, the footnote on the first page of ‘The Rise and Fall of Epidemiology’1 indicates that it was a preprint of a talk ‘to be presented December 10, 2004, at the annual meeting of the John Graunt Literary Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.’ Back in the 1970s, the facetiously named John Graunt Literary Society, or JGLS, met each Friday in the late afternoon at the Harvard epidemiology department to celebrate Graunt's legacy with brewed beverages. Although the December date 23 years in the future at the time of publication was in fact a Friday, the ‘preprint’ implied that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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