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Am J Epidemiol 2002; 156:783-784.
Copyright © 2002 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

Field Epidemiology. Second Edition

Michael C. Samuel

School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Edited by Michael B. Gregg

ISBN 0-19-514259-4, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 212-726-6000, World Wide Web: http://www.oup-usa.org), 2002, 451 pp., $49.95

The second edition of Dr. Michael Gregg’s Field Epidemiology (1), like the first edition from 1996, is an important contribution to the area of applied epidemiology. In the text, "field epidemiology" is variously defined as "the practice of [epidemiology] in real time and real place, which in turn involves both science and art" (1, p. 10), and applies when "the problem is unexpected, a timely response may be . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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