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Edited by Brian L. Strom and Stephen E. Kimmel. 498 pp. Chichester, England, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. $160 (cloth); $80 (paper). ISBN 978-0-470-02924-4 (cloth); 978-0-470-02925-1 (paper).

This nearly 500-page book is a reduced and simplified version of Brian Strom's reference book, Pharmacoepidemiology (4th edition. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), which is to the field what Harrison's and Braunwald's are to internal medicine and cardiology, respectively. Any person involved in pharmacoepidemiology will immediately recognize this book and acknowledge its list of editors and authors as a who's who of the field.

For nonspecialists, it might be useful to explain what pharmacoepidemiology is and why it is important. Historically, concerns about medicines have evolved from toxicity (between 1906 and 1938) to teratology (in 1962) to clinical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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