Comments from the Book Review Editor

• Main Author: Edited Miquel Porta
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1000.1714; http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/170/11/1449.full.pdf

Writing a dictionary involves special skills from special people. Even a superb dictionary will likely elicit comment and disagreement. Fortunately for epidemiologists, John Last and the International Epidemiological Association took on the development of a dictionary of epidemiology, and the first edition was published in 1983 (1).With this Fifth Edition (2), Miquel Porta has become the Editor, joined by Sander Greenland and John Last as Associate Editors. John Last deserves acknowledgment and gratitude for his superb work on A Dictionary of Epidemiology and the tradition of excel-lence that he established over the 4 editions that he edited. Porta’s approach follows that of Last, soliciting the col-laboration of the broad community of epidemiologists. There are 166 contributors listed for the Fourth and Fifth Editions (2, 3). With this Fifth Edition, he turned to wiki