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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 19(5), 1970, pp. 891
Copyright © 1970 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Epidemiology: Man and Disease

by JOHN P. FOX, Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, CARRIE E. HALL, Assistant Professor, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, and LILA R. ELVEBACK, Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Rochester. xi + 339 pp. The Macmillan Company, 866 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. 1970. $12.95

Barbara Hulka
Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514

In view of the small numbers of existing textbooks in epidemiology, this book deserves attention, and is undoubtedly a contribution to the field. It is notable primarily for the wealth of examples presented from the area of infectious diseases, in which the knowledge and experience of the authors are clearly superior.

For beginning students in epidemiology, this textbook has the advantages of good organization and indexing, brevity and clarity of prose, meaningful chapter summaries, glossaries, and useful references. The chapters on the agent and host, as applied to living organisms and their ability to produce immunity in man, are scientifically sound and still sufficiently simple to be understood by students with minimal preparation in biological fields.

Epidemiologic principles and methods are presented with the infectious-disease model predominating to the extent that 79 of the 327 pages are devoted to the host-agent-environment concept of disease etiology. While recognizing the utility of this model for infectious diseases, it appears contrived and overly rigid to force chronic-disease epidemiology1 into this pattern.






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