Should an epidemiologist also have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-178

  Morabia, Alfredo ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62449327001     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.083519     Document Type: Editorial

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