Introduction to Epidemiology General Epidemiology 1 Introductory books

Peter Lercher

Hennekens, Charles H. and Julie E. Buring. Epidemiology in Medicine. Boston, Little Brown, 1987. Ahlbom, Anders and Staffan Norell. Introduction to modern epidemiology. 2nd ed. Newton Lower Falls, MA, Epidemiology R esources Inc., 1990. Norell, Staffan E. A short course in epidemiology. NY, Raven Press, 1992. R. Beaglehole, R. Bonita and T. Kjellstrm. Basic Epidemiology. WHO, 1993 Lilienfeld, David E. and Paul D. Stolley. Foundations of epidemiology. 3rd ed. Oxford, New York, 1994. Stolley, Paul D., Tamar Lasky. Investigating disease patterns: the science of epidemiology. NY: Scientific American Library (WH Freeman), 1995. Gordis, Leon. Epidemiology. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1996 Friis, Robert H. and Thomas A. Sellers. Epidemiology for public health practice. Maryland, Aspen, 1996. MacMahon B, Trichopoulos D. Epidemiology: principles and methods. 2nd ed. Boston MA: Little Brown and Co, 1996. MacMahon, Brian. Epidemiology: principles and methods. 2nd ed. Hagerstown MD, Lippincott-Raven, 1997. Gerstman B. Burt. Epidemiology kept simple. NY, Wiley, 1998.

Hulley SB, Cummings SR (eds). Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach. 2nd ed., Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 2000.
Timmreck TC. An introduction to epidemiology. 3rd ed. Sudbury, MA, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2002. Rothman KJ. Epidemiology: an introduction. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2002.

1 Books for the more advanced

Schlesselman, James J. (with contributions by Paul D. Stolley). Case-control studies. Oxford University Press, New York, 1982. Kleinbaum, David G., Lawrence L. Kupper, and Hal Morgenstern. Epidemiologic research: principles and quantitative methods. Lifetime Learning Publications, Belmont, California, 1982. Kelsey JL, Whittemore AS , Evans AS, et al. Methods in observational epidemiology, 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rothman, Kenneth J. & Sander Greenland. Modern Epidemiology. 2nd ed. Hagerstown MD, Lippincott-Raven, 1998. Brownson RC, Petiti DB. Applied Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 1998. Szklo M, Nieto FJ. Epidemiology: beyond the basics. Gaithersburg, MD, Aspen Publishers, Inc, 2000.

Specialized Epidemiology
Khoury MJ, Beaty TH, Cohen BH. Fundamentals of Genetic Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Checkoway, Harvey, Neil Pearce, and Douglas J. Crawford-Brown. Research methods in occupational epidemiology. NY, Oxford, 1989. Strom BL (ed). Pharmacoedemiology. 3rd ed., Jossey-Bass, 2000. Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW, and Wagner EH. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials, 3rd Edition. Baltimore, MD, Williams and Wilkins, 1996. Bertollini R, Lebowitz MD, Saracci R, Savitz DA. Environmental Epidemiology. CRC/Lewis 1996. Kramer, Barnett S., John K. Gohagan, Philip C. Prorok. Cancer screening: theory and practice. NY, Marcel Dekker, 1999. Gregg MB (ed.) Field epidemiology. 2nd ed. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2002.

Epidemiology and Ethics

Vuylsteek K, Hallen M. Ethical issues in epidemiological research. Brussels, IOS Press, 1994. Coughlin, Steven S. Ethics in epidemiology and clinical research. Annotated readings. Newton Lower Falls, MA, Epidemiology Resources Inc., 1995. Coughlin SS, Beauchamp TL (eds). Ethics and Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.