Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938: Up to the Mountain Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent book for students interested in seriously exploring the details of epidemiology. Dr. Wade Hampton Frost is basically the first epidemiologist that built the department of epidemiology at John Hopkins University. This University also has a wide reputation as the best department of epidemiology in the United States followed by Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The book includes many specific case studies of epidemics that Dr. Frost has been deeply involved in including his personal experiences with Tuberclosis in Ashville, NC.It provides you with many personal insights on the requirements of a successful epidemiologist. It requires the skills of a good researcher, statistical skills of an engineer and the medical education of a good physician.
It also describes clearly the tasks of the physician in the medical classroom. I recommend this book for aspiring medical students who are still exploring various specialties. It could be especially valuable to medical students from third world countries where epidemics are prevalent.
The author is a physician with a breadth of knowledge of medicine in the early nineteen hundreds who has thoroughly researched the life of Dr.Henry Frost and Wade Hampton Frost.

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Wade Hampton Frost was the first professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, in the first department of epidemiology in the United States. He began his remarkable career with the US Public Health Service, where his greatest contributions included the recognition that mild and asymptomatic childhood polio produced lifelong immunity, and the development of methods for tracking influenza epidemics. From 1919, as a professor at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at John Hopkins, he trained many future leaders of American public health programs. He also made substantial contributions to epidemiologic methodology, including developing the concept of an index case during investigations of tuberculosis in Tennessee, the use of life-table methods for estimating secondary attack rates, the use of age cohorts for longitudinal studies, and-in collaboration with Lowell Reed-the first mathematical expression of the epidemic curve. Drawing on personal papers, recorded interviews, and archival material, Thomas M. Daniel recounts the story of Frost's life and work, and elucidates his seminal contributions to epidemiology and public health.George Comstock, Emeritus Centennial Alumni Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins has provided an introduction. Thomas M. Daniel is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and International Health and Emeritus Director of the Center for International Health at Case Western Reserve University.