Mervyn Susser

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According to Wikipedia, Mervyn Wilfred Susser was a South African activist, doctor and epidemiologist. His career was closely interwoven with that of his wife, Zena Stein. He is considered as one of the pioneers of epidemiology in the twentieth century.

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Obesity in young men after famine exposure in utero and early infancy. (1976) (1581)
Choosing a future for epidemiology: II. From black box to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology. (1996) (865)
Choosing a future for epidemiology: I. Eras and paradigms. (1996) (579)
Do clinical markers of barotrauma and oxygen toxicity explain interhospital variation in rates of chronic lung disease? The Neonatology Committee for the Developmental Network. (2000) (506)
What is a cause and how do we know one? A grammar for pragmatic epidemiology. (1991) (494)
Famine and Human Development: The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 (1975) (465)
The logic in ecological: I. The logic of analysis. (1994) (415)
Causal Thinking in the Health Sciences: Concepts and Strategies in Epidemiology (1973) (394)
The relation of transient hypothyroxinemia in preterm infants to neurologic development at two years of age. (1996) (378)
Maternal Infection, Fetal Inflammatory Response, and Brain Damage in Very Low Birth Weight Infants (1999) (378)
Early origin of coronary heart disease (the “Barker hypothesis”) (1995) (327)
Localization of a gene for partial epilepsy to chromosome 10q (1995) (326)
Cranial ultrasound prediction of disabling and nondisabling cerebral palsy at age two in a low birth weight population. (1995) (300)
Newborn intensive care and neonatal mortality in low-birth-weight infants: a population study. (1982) (269)
The tribulations of trials--intervention in communities. (1995) (232)
Does risk factor epidemiology put epidemiology at risk? Peering into the future. (1998) (231)
The Dutch Famine, 1944–1945, and the Reproductive Process. I. Effects on Six Indices at Birth (1975) (218)
Maternal exercise during pregnancy, physical fitness, and fetal growth. (1993) (193)
The logic in ecological: II. The logic of design. (1994) (189)
SOCIOLOGY IN MEDICINE (1963) (173)
Informed consent for HIV testing in a South African hospital: is it truly informed and truly voluntary? (1998) (170)
Epidemiology in the United States after World War II: the evolution of technique. (1985) (169)
Maternal weight gain, infant birth weight, and diet: causal sequences. (1991) (141)
Hypothyroxinemia of prematurity and the risk of cerebral white matter damage. (1999) (126)
The epidemiology of life stress (1981) (119)
An assessment of the effects of maternal age and parity in different components of perinatal mortality. (1986) (117)
Low birth weight and prenatal nutrition: an interpretative review. (1970) (116)
MATERNITY AND MYOCARDIAL FAILURE IN AFRICAN WOMEN (1961) (116)
Magnesium sulfate in labor and risk of neonatal brain lesions and cerebral palsy in low birth weight infants. The Neonatal Brain Hemorrhage Study Analysis Group. (1997) (112)
The Dutch Famine, 1944–1945, and the Reproductive Process. II. Interrelations of Caloric Rations and Six Indices at Birth (1975) (109)
Judgement and causal inference: criteria in epidemiologic studies. (1977) (109)
Incidence and timing of germinal matrix/intraventricular hemorrhage in low birth weight infants. (1993) (108)
A future for epidemiology? (1999) (97)
The logic of Sir Karl Popper and the practice of epidemiology. (1986) (96)
Cancer rates after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and proximity of residence to the plant. (1991) (93)
Cancer near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant: radiation emissions. (1990) (91)
Health as a human right: an epidemiologist's perspective on the public health. (1993) (90)
Period effects, generation effects and age effects in peptic ulcer mortality. (1982) (89)
Familial aggregation studies. A note on their epidemiologic properties. (1989) (84)
Maternal receipt of magnesium sulfate does not seem to reduce the risk of neonatal white matter damage. (1997) (84)
Maternal leisure-time exercise and timely delivery. (1998) (81)
Birth weight, fetal age and perinatal mortality. (1972) (75)
Causes of peptic ulcer. A selective epidemiologic review. (1967) (75)
Mental Health and Environment (1964) (72)
Rules of inference in epidemiology. (1986) (72)
The choice of place of delivery. Effect of hospital level on mortality in all singleton births in New York City. (1987) (70)
Social class indicators and mortality in low birth weight infants. (1982) (70)
Fetal death during labor: an epidemiologic indicator of level of obstetric care. (1985) (69)
Eras in Epidemiology: The Evolution of Ideas (2009) (65)
Antenatal corticosteroids and cranial ultrasonographic abnormalities. (1999) (65)
Disease, illness, sickness; impairment, disability and handicap (1990) (63)
Thyroxine values from newborn screening of 919 infants born before 29 weeks' gestation. (1997) (58)
Prenatal nutrition, birthweight, and psychological development: an overview of experiments, quasi-experiments, and natural experiments in the past decade. (1981) (57)
Epidemiology today: 'a thought-tormented world'. (1989) (56)
Civilization and peptic ulcer (2002) (56)
Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in the new millennium: the challenge of breast feeding. (2004) (54)
Wider “ causal thinking in the health sciences (1998) (52)
Intrauterine growth retardation: epidemiological issues and public health significance. (1984) (48)
MATERNAL NUTRITION AND LOW BIRTH-WEIGHT (1975) (47)
Pioneering community-oriented primary care. (1999) (43)
Ethical Components in the Definition of Health (1974) (42)
Age at death used to assess the effect of interhospital transfer of newborns. (1984) (41)
Preterm birth, intrauterine growth retardation, and perinatal mortality. (1992) (41)
Social Factors in the Development of Sphincter Control (1967) (40)
Widowhood: a situational life stress or a stressful life event? (1981) (39)
Eras in Epidemiology (2009) (38)
Background gamma radiation and childhood cancers within ten miles of a US nuclear plant. (1990) (38)
Glossary: causality in public health science (2001) (37)
Should the epidemiologist be a social scientist or a molecular biologist? (1999) (36)
Correlates of low thyroxine values at newborn screening among infants born before 32 weeks gestation. (1997) (35)
Prior, duplicate, repetitive, fragmented, and redundant publication and editorial decisions. (1993) (34)
ATTRITION OF TRISOMIES AS A MATERNAL SCREENING DEVICE An Explanation of the Association of Trisomy 21 with Maternal Age (1986) (32)
Famine and Fertility (1978) (31)
A South African odyssey in community health: a memoir of the impact of the teachings of Sidney Kark. (1993) (30)
Early ultrasound dating of pregnancy: selection and measurement biases. (1995) (29)
Community psychiatry : epidemiologic and social themes (1969) (29)
The design of prophylactic trials for HIV: the case of microbicides. (2003) (29)
Epidemiology, Health, & Society: Selected Papers (1987) (27)
Some principles in study design for preventing HIV transmission: rigor or reality. (1996) (26)
Risk of Cranial Ultrasound Abnormalities in Very-low-birth-weight Infants Conceived With Assisted Reproductive Techniques (2002) (26)
The epidemiology of mental illness in an English city (1968) (25)
Medical care in a South African township. (1955) (24)
Authors and authorship--reform or abolition? (1997) (24)
Ethics in Epidemiology (1978) (24)
Health and Health Care under Apartheid (1982) (24)
CEREBRAL PALSY AND NEWBORN CARE. I: SECULAR TRENDS IN CEREBRAL PALSY (1981) (23)
Commentary: the longitudinal perspective and cohort analysis. (2001) (22)
MATERNAL NUTRITION AND LOW BIRTH-WEIGHT (1975) (21)
3: Mutability of Intelligence and Epidemiology of Mild Mental Retardation (1970) (21)
The social dimensions of a symptom: A socio-medical study of enuresis (1967) (20)
Indicators and designs in genetic epidemiology: separating heredity and environment. (1987) (20)
Separating heredity and environment. (1985) (19)
Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950 (2002) (19)
An introduction to the work of William Farr. (1975) (18)
The effects of dietary supplementation during pregnancy on placental morphology, pathology, and histomorphometry. (1984) (15)
Families of Dull Children (1960) (15)
Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 1, Early evolution (2002) (15)
A Report on the Mental Health Services of the City of Salford for the Year, 1958. (1958) (15)
Induced abortion and health as a value. (1992) (15)
Working during pregnancy: physical and psychosocial strain. (1986) (14)
THE PERSONAL DOCTOR (1960) (14)
Nocturnal Enuresis as a Phenomenon of Institutions (1966) (14)
Medical care and preterm infants of normal birth weight. (1986) (14)
The prevention of perinatal HIV transmission in the less-developed world. (1998) (14)
Teaching social medicine in the United States. (1966) (13)
Comments on "A reevaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant". (1997) (13)
Annotation: Seven Fatal Flaws in Submitted Manuscripts (1994) (13)
Consequences of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident continued: further comment. (1997) (12)
Commentary: civilization and peptic ulcer 40 years on. (2002) (12)
Epidemiology in Health Care Planning: A Guide to the Uses of a Scientific Method (1980) (11)
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that. (1997) (10)
The technological paradox of health inequality, and a probe with a practical tool (2000) (10)
Apartheid and the causes of death: disentangling ideology and laws from class and race. (1983) (10)
Control groups in microbicide trials: in defense of orthodoxy. (2005) (10)
Rationale for the Community Care of Mental Disorder (1965) (9)
Origins and early development of the case-control study (2004) (9)
Socio-medical study of enuresis among delinquent boys. (1965) (8)
Variation in use of corticosteroids among infants < or = 1,500 grams across hospitals in three states. (1998) (8)
THE USES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN MEDICINE (1964) (8)
The aftermath of September 11: what's an epidemiologist to do? (2002) (8)
Editor's Note: Reviewing for the Journal (1996) (7)
Prenatal starvation and maternal blood pressure near delivery. (1982) (7)
Families of Dull Children: Part IV.—Increments in Intelligence (1960) (7)
Season of Birth in Schizophrenia and Other Mental Disorders (1975) (7)
The challenge of causality: human nutrition, brain development and mental performance. (1989) (7)
A personal history: social medicine in a South African setting, 1952–5. Part 2: Social medicine as a calling: ups, downs, and politics in Alexandra Township (2006) (7)
Changing Roles and Co-Ordination in Mental Health Services (1957) (7)
Judgment and causal inference: criteria in epidemiologic studies. 1977. (1995) (7)
Further thoughts on the future of medical practice outside the hospital. (1963) (6)
Prevention and cost containment. (1980) (6)
Historic trends in deaths from chronic kidney disease in the United States and Britain. (1971) (6)
A personal history: social medicine in a South African setting, 1952–5. Part 1: The shape of ideas forged in the second world war (2006) (6)
The bell tools for a school of public health--and for thee? (1993) (5)
The Concept of Environment (2009) (5)
Families of Dull Children: Part III.—Social Selection by Family Type (1960) (5)
Causal thinking in practice: strengths and weaknesses of the clinical vantage point. (1984) (5)
Microbicides: anti-HIV efficacy and ethics. (2004) (5)
Mild mental subnormality: social and epidemiolocal studies. (1969) (5)
Reviews and Commentary: JUDGMENT AND CAUSAL INFERENCE: CRITERIA IN EPIDKMIOLOGIC STUDIES (1995) (5)
The Quantification of Risk Factors in Major Neurodevelopmental Disorders (1988) (5)
Rebuilding bridges: what is the real role of social class in disease occurrence? (2011) (5)
New York besieged: 11 September and after (2002) (4)
Effects of prenatal nutritional supplementation on the placenta: report of a randomized controlled trial. (1982) (4)
Famine and Development: The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45 (1975) (4)
Choosing a Future for Epidemiology. 1996. (2015) (4)
Comprar Eras in Epidemiology The Evolution of Ideas | Mervyn Susser | 9780195300666 | Oxford University Press (2009) (4)
A final tribute to reviewers (1998) (4)
Play and the sick child. (1969) (4)
Health care reform and public health: weighing the proposals. (1994) (4)
African township; a sociomedical study. (1957) (3)
Commentary: Donald Budd Armstrong (1886-1968)--pioneering tuberculosis prevention in general practice. (2005) (3)
Preserving public health values. (1999) (3)
A conversation with Mervyn Susser. Interview by Nigel Paneth. (2003) (3)
Editorial: The Paper Route for Submissions to the Journal (1994) (3)
The British Sanitary Movement: Edwin Chadwick (2009) (3)
The Columbia University School of Public Health 75th anniversary issue. Introduction. (1998) (3)
Goliath and some Davids in the tobacco wars. (1997) (3)
MATERNAL NUTRITION AND LOW BIRTH-WEIGHT (1975) (3)
Steps toward discovering causes: divergence and convergence of epidemiology and clinical medicine. (1997) (2)
AUTHORS' RESPONSE TO “CANCER NEAR NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS” (1990) (2)
Chronic disability following mental illness in an English city (1970) (2)
Concepts of Epidemiology: An Integrated Introduction to the Ideas, Theories, Principles and Methods of Epidemiology. Raj Bhopal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 346, £27.50 (PB). ISBN: 0-19-263155-1. (2002) (2)
The Life Course of Black Women in South Africa in the 1990s: Generation, Age, and Period in the Decade of HIV and Political Liberation (2002) (2)
Editor's Note: A New Director for WHO (1998) (2)
HOME ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (1965) (2)
DISEASE IN SOUTH AFRICA (1985) (2)
Cerebral atrophy in young cannabis smokers. (1972) (2)
Nutritional supplementation and mental development (1991) (2)
A study of doctors. A method of mutual selection and the evaluation of results in a training program for family doctors: Michael Balint, Enid Balint, Robert Gosling and Peter Hildebrand. Mind and Medicine Monographs, Tavistock Publications, 1966. 146 pp. $5.00. (1968) (1)
Civilization and peptic ulcer. 1962. (2002) (1)
Essay Review Measured intelligence in childhood, social class and adult outcomes across Poland's sociopolitical transitions, 1945–1995 (2004) (1)
Patient education: a public health point of view. (1985) (1)
Peptic Ulcer: Rise and Fall. Christie DA, Tansey EM (eds). Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. Vol.14, 2002. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2002, £10.00 ISBN: 0-85484-084-2. (2003) (1)
Commentary: lessons from and for developing countries. (1977) (1)
The Editor Responds (1995) (1)
chapter 4 – Environment and Biology in Aging: Some Epidemiological Notions (1981) (1)
The Relation of Transient Hypothyroxinemia in Preterm Infants to Neurologic Development at Two Years of Age (1996) (1)
ORTHO-CRESYL PHOSPHATE POISONING (1959) (1)
Editor's Note: A Final Tribute to Reviewers (1998) (1)
Contagion, Infection, and the Idea of Specific Agents (2009) (1)
Mental Retardation and Handicap in the Developing World: An Overview of Broad Issues (1981) (1)
Editorial: International Submissions to the Journal (1996) (1)
Determinants of Cognitive Performance in Warsaw (1979) (1)
Choosing aFuture forEpidemiology: II.FromBlack BoxtoChinese Boxes andEco-Epidemiology (1996) (1)
Prevention and health maintenance revisited. Opening statement. (1975) (1)
Introduction to the theme: a critical review of sociology in health. (1974) (1)
Topics in Public Health (1966) (1)
Letter: Maternal nutrition and low birth-weight. (1976) (1)
Invited Commentary on “Causation and Disease: a Chronological Journey. The Thomas Parran Lecture” (1995) (1)
Letter: Environmental stress and thyrotoxicosis. (1974) (1)
EFFECT OF ETHAMSYLATE ON CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW (1987) (1)
About George W Bush’s Iraq war (2003) (1)
Cardiological Problems in Younger Women (1963) (0)
A study of postneonatal diarrheal mortality in Cuba 1969-1978: conceptual framework and methodology. (1984) (0)
The role of academic medicine in patient education. Panel discussion: implementing changes within the academic medical center. (1985) (0)
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WIDOWHOOD AND PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC DISABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH MENTAL DISORDERS (0)
Reponse : Pregnancy and Famine (1973) (0)
The Expanded Epidemiology Team: Social Scientists and Statisticians Join Epidemiologists in Social Surveys (2009) (0)
Response : Hypothesis Testing (1979) (0)
Psychiatric illness in general practice: Michael Shepherd, Brian Cooper, A.C. Brown and G.W. Kalton. Oxford University Press, 1966. 220 pp., 45/-. (1968) (0)
Opposition to WMA Meeting in South Africa (1985) (0)
Serving all. (1992) (0)
Epidemiologists and Geneticists: A Developing Détente (2009) (0)
Neonatal White Matter Damage Maternal Receipt of Magnesium Sulfate Does Not Seem to Reduce the Risk of (2013) (0)
Hypothesis testing. (1979) (0)
Panel discussion: nutrition in child development. (1989) (0)
Origins of a National Public Health System (2009) (0)
The Public Health and Social Change: Implications for Professional Education in Public Health in the United States (1971) (0)
The Concept of Host and Immunity (2009) (0)
The Arsenal of Observational Methods in Epidemiology: Classical Designs, the Fourfold Table, Cohort and Case-Control Studies (2009) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1981) (0)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Role of Women: The New Challenge (2009) (0)
WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN CAPE TOWN (1985) (0)
Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Beyond Bacteria (2009) (0)
Reviewing for the Journal (1996) (0)
Germ Theory, Infection, and Bacteriology (2009) (0)
Social Science in Epidemiology (2009) (0)
The clinical teaching of the undergraduate in social medicine in some South African Schools. (1957) (0)
Commentary II - Evolution of some epidemilogic methods and concepts in selected textbooks of the 20th century: a review (2004) (0)
Numeracy in Epidemiology (2009) (0)
COMMEMORATION OF WOLF SZMUNESS (1983) (0)
Non-receipt of antenatal corticosteroids among≤1500 gm infants (1997) (0)
Chronic disability following mental illness in an English city (1970) (0)
1. Law and the Public’s Health: Mapping the Terrain (2019) (0)
The French Enlightenment, Epidemiology, and Public Health (2009) (0)
Vital Statistics: William Farr and the Creation of a System (2009) (0)
Reviews and Commentary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF WILLIAM FARR1 (1975) (0)
571 MEDICAL CARE AND THE LARGE PREMATURE INFANT (1985) (0)
Talking past each other about risks and the importance of context. (1993) (0)
Book Notices (1926) (0)
Some trials test rather similar preparations , and several wisely use the same placebos (2010) (0)
Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance.Carlo Cipolla (1978) (0)
Evolution and Genetics: Darwin and Galton (2009) (0)
Editorial: HIVResearch, Ethics, andtheDeveloping World (1998) (0)
Anniversary--a time for reflection. (1997) (0)
Epidemiology After World War II: New Times, New Problems, New Players (2009) (0)
Commentary: Cautionary Notes on Interpreting History from Additional First-Hand Observers of Poverty, Health and Policy in South Africa (2008) (0)
Epidemiology Fully Harnessed to Public Health: New York (2009) (0)
Stein and Susser reply (1980) (0)
and The winter of 1944-1945, (0)
L'incidenza dei tumori nella zona di three mile Island (1991) (0)
THE SPECIALTY OF MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (1965) (0)
Furthering the Epidemiology of Social Gradients and Disease: Goldberger and Sydenstricker (2009) (0)
The Scope and Purposes of Epidemiology (2009) (0)
Some Notes on the Epidemiological and Ecological Models (1976) (0)
Epidemiologic Experiments: Natural and Contrived (2009) (0)
Letter: Maternal nutrition and low birth-weight. (1975) (0)
Prenatal starvation and maternal blood pressure (1982) (0)
Emancipate CDC. (1993) (0)
The Relation of Concepts to Causes in Epidemiology (2009) (0)
Response : Determinants of Cognitive Performance in Warsaw (1979) (0)
New Designs and Models (2009) (0)
Unconvinced of Value of Antenatal Transfer to Level 3 Intensive Care Units (1985) (0)

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