Richard A. Kaslow • Lawrence R. Stanberry
James W. Le Duc
Editors

2014

Epidemiology and Control

It has been 17 years since the release of the last edition—an inordinately long interval in view of the dizzying pace of discovery in the biomedical sciences. That lengthy interval presented certain challenges in deciding whether and how to embark on the production of a new edition. An immediate reality was that a new volume had to be comprehensive enough to retain the durable parts of the increasingly obsolete earlier edition while capturing the myriad new advances. That significantly greater breadth and depth would require an expanded editorial team. We were fortunate that the three of us together were sufficiently familiar with current experts across our exciting and rapidly evolving field to recruit a stellar group of authorities in their respective specialties.