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Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Ed. by Sarah Boslaugh. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2008. 2 vols, acid-free $350 (ISBN 978-1-4129-2816-8).
Epidemiology can be defined as the study of health risks and identification of frequencies and determinants underlying morbidity and mortality. Morbidity refers to the relative rate of disease in either a population, place, or across time, whereas the term mortality refers to the relative rate of death in relation to these variables. Editor Sarah Boslaugh, at Washington University School of Medicine, and associate editor Eouise-Anne McNutt from University of Albany, with the guidance of an advisory board, have assembled a superb set of articles from 294 contributors from universities and organizations worldwide. The 486 articles provide a comprehensive overview of important topics in the epidemiology field. This arrangement is extremely valuable because it may be difficult to quickly access the same...