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Epi Wit & Wisdom - News Articles and Reports
This chapter contains the best of the regular news
articles that have appeared in The Epidemiology Monitor since 1980. It
contains 48 news stories placed in seven categories including
Controversies, Epidemiology and Policy, Epidemiology and the Law,
Epidemiology and the Media, Ethics, History, and articles On
Epidemiology as a discipline.
The chapter provides many
highlights including 1) a retelling of the fenoterol episode in New
Zealand which raised numerous ethical and public health issues for
epidemiologists, 2) advice to epidemiologists on how to manage the
difficult transition from data to policy making, including a
fascinating comparison between how scientists and politicians think,
3) summaries of legal developments pertinent for epidemiologists, 4)
insights on how journalists see epidemiology, 5) articles about ethics
including a reprint of an article describing early work by Colin
Soskolne who was among the first in the epidemiology community to
raise ethical issues publicly and call for a code of ethics, 6)
historical pieces by David Morens, including his description of how
epidemiology was born during the cholera epidemic in Paris in 1832,
and 7) a miscellany of articles on the state of epidemiology and the
role of epidemiologists, including a series of very thoughtful letters
written in response to the Gary Taubes article in Science in 1995.
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