Debates and Controversies

• Key books and papers
• Rothman KJ (2007). The rise and fall of epidemiology, 1950-2000 A.D. Int J Epidemiol 36:708-710. PDF

• Commentary: Rothman KJ (2007). Commentary: Epidemiology still ascendent. Int J Epidemiol 36:710-711. PDF
• Commentary: Victora CG (2007). Commentary: Epidemiology and futurology - why did Rothman get it wrong? Int J Epidemiol 36:712-713. PDF
• Commentary: Pearce N (2007). Commentary: The rise and rise of corporate epidemiology and the narrowing of epidemiology's vision. Int J Epidemiol 36:713-717. PDF
• Commentary: Coebergh JWW (2007). Commentary: Epidemiology needs the patients to survive. Int J Epidemiol 36:717-719. PDF
• Commentary: Coleman MP (2007). Commentary: Is epidemiology really dead, anyway? A look back at Kenneth Rothman's 'The rise and fall of epidemiology, 1950-2000 AD.' Int J Epidemiol 36:719-723. PDF

• Stolley PD (1991). When genius errs: R.A. Fisher and the lung cancer controversy. Am J Epidemiol 133(5)416-425. PDF
• Susser M, Susser E (1996). Choosing a future for epidemiology. II. From black box to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology. Am J Pub Health 86: 674–677. PDF
• White C (1990). Research on smoking and lung cancer: a landmark in the history of chronic disease epidemiology. Yale J Biol Med 63:29-46. PDF