Commentary: Epidemiology still ascendant

Though published in 1981, the footnote on the first page of \u91The Rise and Fall of Epidemiology\u921 indicates that it was a preprint of a talk \u91to be presented December 10, 2004, at the annual meeting of the John Graunt Literary Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.\u92 Back in the 1970s, the facetiously named John Graunt Literary Society, or JGLS, met each Friday in the late afternoon at the Harvard epidemiology department to celebrate Graunt's legacy with brewed beverages. Although the December date 23 years in the future at the time of publication was in fact a Friday, the \u91preprint\u92 implied that . .