Ken Rothman is a household name for epidemiologists all over the world. The appearance
of his book 'Modern Epidemiology'1 in the mid-1980s consolidated his reputation as a major …

Rothman's inspired lament1 about the demise of epidemiology at the end of the 20th century
was published in 1981, when the century still had 20 years left to run. It was a premature …

After his famous text book ''Modern Epidemiology'', since 2008 available in its third edition
[1], Kenneth J. Rothman [2] provides a second edition of his introductory level text book. To …

Professor Hofman, in his capacity as the Editor-in-Chief of this journal of “epidemiology,”
invited me to write an essay for it, given that I've been immersed in epidemiologic academia …

It is time, we are told, to rethink epidemiology. It is time to rethink our quest, our concepts,
and the nature and origin of our commitments. That is a lot of thinking, stretching across the …

In 2001, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS),
four young epidemiologists and an EIS alumna gather around a table at the John Snow Pub …

In 1662 John Graunt, a London haberdasher, published his magnum opus, Natural and
Political Observations... Made upon the Bills of Mortality, and thereby established the field of …

My task in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) will be 2-fold. I will continue the
regular publication of “Snippets From the Past,” a section that George Comstock originally …

This is the long-awaited second edition of Rothman's now classical book (reviewed in
Statistics in Medicine, 7, 1988, p. 818). Compared with this" rst edition the present volume …

In our first editorial after taking over responsibility for the content of the IJE in 2001, we
illustrated some of the successes and failures of epidemiology, and asked the question …