Modern Epidemiology

This is the wurst ridden epidumbiology book I ever red. Us epidumbiologists don't need to know all this hard stuff. We need more ez 2 read books with short wurds and no equations and no Greak letters. Buks that tell us in simpleton terms we ken under stand some wrong weighs to do our studies and sum wrong wheys to annulize our data and sam wrong waze to interprut our resultz. But most of all we need bigger pictures to color with our crayons. The only gud coloring pictures in this buk are those stoopid Rothman's Pies. But I keep going outside the lines.

The first edition grew out to be the reference of choice of many epidemiologists. This new edition should secure that status, even though the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods (Gail and Benichou) should provide some serious competition. In fact this text is so complete that it may even stimulate the whole field. If practising medical researchers start to apply the knowledge provided, then econometrics and psychometrics teachers will have to find a new source for their jokes.However, in the process the book lost its attraction as a text for students. It has become more technical and less readable. That shouldn't bother students as there are plenty of good elementary books (like Hennekens) and even intermediate books (like the excellent Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics by Nieto and Szklo). The only reason I can think of why you would like to use this book in class is that you're a teacher who likes to study this ultimate reference yourself. What better way than to teach from it? So this book isn't for students, unless however, you're a student who already has got a firm background in epidemiology, statistics, econometrics or something similar, than this may just be the book for you.

This book has proven immensely useful in my work. Although the text can be difficult to read at times, its thoroughness is nonetheless outstanding. It is clearly the best book regarding epidemiologic methods, particularly for those with a basic epidemiologic background seeking to advance their skills.

This edition is the best Epi book ever. Even though it is quite complicated and sometimes difficult to fully understand, it does provide a state-of-the-art knowledge and vision into Epidemiologic Methods. The book is the great reference to Epidemiologists or ones who would like to know Epi methods for their research and other purposes. Thanks to Dr. Rothman and Dr. Greenland's clear minds and great contributions from many other authors, the book is much updated and more comprehensive than the first edition. You definitely should have one on the shelf.

The first edition of this book was a superb, tightly written mongraph, but it was a single-authored work written in the 1980s and needed to be updated. This new edition seems to be intended as a more comprehensive reference work on epidemiologic methods, adding a dozen authors and covering many topics that were not in the first edition, such as reproductive epidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology. Some readers might find it to be too detailed and broad to be easily digested in a short time. Nevertheless, as a reference guide, I don't think that it has any rival. The first 100 pages or so are a clearly rewritten update of the core material from the first edition. The middle chapters, which are new and mostly written by Greenland, are a little slow-going but are worth the effort if you want a cutting-edge insight into epidemiologic methods. The final section, with many contributors, presents the specific methodology of nearly every area of epidemiologic research. Overall, this book is essential if you are serious about understanding epidemiology.