Epidemiology: Second-rate science?

Public Health Reports

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 312-326

  Parascandola, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PORTRAITS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031903730     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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