Douglas L Weed
Biographic Data
| ID | 5490329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas L Weed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Weed |
| SIGNATURE | WEED D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Cancer Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4200-7588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conflicts of interest: How could disclosure of interests work better in medicine, epidemiology and public health
Suspend for a moment the need to align “conflicts of interest” with matters financial. Resist the temptation to pigeonhole the paired concepts of conflicts and interests with ethically questionable actions or, for that matter, perceptions of wrongdoing. Instead, focus with me on the conflicts epidemiologists face as the discipline and its professional practitioners mature. Focus on the conflicts that are of interest to epidemiologists. Three come…
Science, ethics, and professional public health practice
Competing values and obligations At the core of professional public health practice is a promise to help society by preventing disease and promoting health. Public health is a calling, as much an art as it is steeped in scientific theory, method, and evidence. We, the public health professionals, learn theory and practice in the classroom and hone them in experience. We define core values and embrace integrity, prudence, honesty, and trust. We de…
Is the precautionary principle a principle
The article considers whether the precautionary principle is a principle. Truth in labeling is not the only motive behind asking this question. There is a tradition of principle-based decision making in the public health professions. Principles of ethics matter to epidemiologists and others who study disease causation in populations and recommend, even advocate for, disease prevention and health promotion interventions. Public health professional…
Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms
Ethics in epidemiology and public health has emerged from several sources: most obvious is the discipline of bioethics, with its theories, methods, case studies, and familiar textbooks. Bioethics has primarily been focused upon medical ethics and research ethics and only recently has turned its attention to public health. Another source of scholarship is philosophical ethics. Here the sourcebooks are the writings of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Rawls, …
Methods in epidemiology and public health: Does practice match theory
Epidemiology is widely perceived as a public health discipline within which methodology matters .1 Methods dominate educational curriculums and influential textbooks.2 3Epidemiological societies regularly feature methods sessions at their national and international meetings and, at least informally, the discipline recognises the methodologists who study the methods and the practitioners who use them. It follows that epidemiological methods, wheth…
Cancer Knowledge and Misconceptions Among Immigrant Salvadorean Men in the Washington, D.C. Area
Towards a philosophy of public health
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Quality of reviews in epidemiology
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the quality of recent reviews in epidemiology. METHODS: All 1995 issues of 7 widely read epidemiology journals were searched to identify reviews. RESULTS: Twenty-nine reviews were identified. Methodology was not specified or incomplete for literature searches in 79% of reviews; the same was true for inclusion criteria in 83% and for combining studies in 62%. More than 60% of the reviews were not methodologically sy…
Preventing scientific misconduct
Preventing scientific misconduct. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.125 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Beyond black box epidemiology
Beyond black box epidemiology. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.12 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Quantifying the expected vs potential impact of a risk-factor intervention program
Quantifying the expected vs potential impact of a risk-factor intervention program. M Bulterys, H Morgenstern, and D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.5.867 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Weed Responds
Weed Responds Douglas L. Weed CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.7.1029-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Epidemiology, the humanities, and public health
Epidemiologists may benefit from the disciplines of history, philosophy of science, ethics, literature, and art. Within these disciplines lie answers to the questions of who we are, what is right, how to think, and when to act. Studying and participating in the humanities may also help epidemiologists focus their professional concerns on the humanity their methods serve. A parallel phenomenon in the clinical sciences--medical humanities--provides…
The association between alcohol and breast cancer: Popular press coverage of research
OBJECTIVES. This study was undertaken to examine popular press reports of the association between alcohol and breast cancer. METHODS. Articles from scientific journals and stories from newspapers and magazines published from January 1, 1985, to July 1, 1992, were retrieved from six on-line databases. Lay press stories were analyzed to determine which medical articles were publicized and what information was reported. RESULTS. Fifty-eight scientif…
Alcohol, breast cancer, and causal inference: Where ethics meets epidemiology
An epidemiological application of Popper's method
The strong logicodeductive method of science is applied in an investigation of the mortality of a large population of communications workers (338 306 white men) to explain the mortality deficits so often observed in occupational studies. A theory for the healthy worker effect is proposed, and its predictions are tested in comparisons of mortality curves fitted to Weibull functions using regression techniques. The theory, based on the effect of se…
Epidemiology, the humanities, and public health
Epidemiologists may benefit from the disciplines of history, philosophy of science, ethics, literature, and art. Within these disciplines lie answers to the questions of who we are, what is right, how to think, and when to act. Studying and participating in the humanities may also help epidemiologists focus their professional concerns on the humanity their methods serve. A parallel phenomenon in the clinical sciences--medical humanities--provides…
Beyond black box epidemiology
Beyond black box epidemiology. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.12 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Towards a philosophy of public health
You can respond to this article at: service Email alerting top right corner of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article- sign up in the box at the
Science, ethics, and professional public health practice
Competing values and obligations At the core of professional public health practice is a promise to help society by preventing disease and promoting health. Public health is a calling, as much an art as it is steeped in scientific theory, method, and evidence. We, the public health professionals, learn theory and practice in the classroom and hone them in experience. We define core values and embrace integrity, prudence, honesty, and trust. We de…
The association between alcohol and breast cancer: Popular press coverage of research
OBJECTIVES. This study was undertaken to examine popular press reports of the association between alcohol and breast cancer. METHODS. Articles from scientific journals and stories from newspapers and magazines published from January 1, 1985, to July 1, 1992, were retrieved from six on-line databases. Lay press stories were analyzed to determine which medical articles were publicized and what information was reported. RESULTS. Fifty-eight scientif…
Conflicts of interest: How could disclosure of interests work better in medicine, epidemiology and public health
Suspend for a moment the need to align “conflicts of interest” with matters financial. Resist the temptation to pigeonhole the paired concepts of conflicts and interests with ethically questionable actions or, for that matter, perceptions of wrongdoing. Instead, focus with me on the conflicts epidemiologists face as the discipline and its professional practitioners mature. Focus on the conflicts that are of interest to epidemiologists. Three come…
Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms
Ethics in epidemiology and public health has emerged from several sources: most obvious is the discipline of bioethics, with its theories, methods, case studies, and familiar textbooks. Bioethics has primarily been focused upon medical ethics and research ethics and only recently has turned its attention to public health. Another source of scholarship is philosophical ethics. Here the sourcebooks are the writings of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Rawls, …
Methods in epidemiology and public health: Does practice match theory
Epidemiology is widely perceived as a public health discipline within which methodology matters .1 Methods dominate educational curriculums and influential textbooks.2 3Epidemiological societies regularly feature methods sessions at their national and international meetings and, at least informally, the discipline recognises the methodologists who study the methods and the practitioners who use them. It follows that epidemiological methods, wheth…
Preventing scientific misconduct
Preventing scientific misconduct. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.125 Published Online: October 07, 2011
An epidemiological application of Popper's method
The strong logicodeductive method of science is applied in an investigation of the mortality of a large population of communications workers (338 306 white men) to explain the mortality deficits so often observed in occupational studies. A theory for the healthy worker effect is proposed, and its predictions are tested in comparisons of mortality curves fitted to Weibull functions using regression techniques. The theory, based on the effect of se…
Alcohol, breast cancer, and causal inference: Where ethics meets epidemiology
An epidemiological application of Popper's method
The strong logicodeductive method of science is applied in an investigation of the mortality of a large population of communications workers (338 306 white men) to explain the mortality deficits so often observed in occupational studies. A theory for the healthy worker effect is proposed, and its predictions are tested in comparisons of mortality curves fitted to Weibull functions using regression techniques. The theory, based on the effect of se…
Alcohol, breast cancer, and causal inference: Where ethics meets epidemiology
Epidemiology, the humanities, and public health
Epidemiologists may benefit from the disciplines of history, philosophy of science, ethics, literature, and art. Within these disciplines lie answers to the questions of who we are, what is right, how to think, and when to act. Studying and participating in the humanities may also help epidemiologists focus their professional concerns on the humanity their methods serve. A parallel phenomenon in the clinical sciences--medical humanities--provides…
The association between alcohol and breast cancer: Popular press coverage of research
OBJECTIVES. This study was undertaken to examine popular press reports of the association between alcohol and breast cancer. METHODS. Articles from scientific journals and stories from newspapers and magazines published from January 1, 1985, to July 1, 1992, were retrieved from six on-line databases. Lay press stories were analyzed to determine which medical articles were publicized and what information was reported. RESULTS. Fifty-eight scientif…
Weed Responds
Weed Responds Douglas L. Weed CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.7.1029-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Quantifying the expected vs potential impact of a risk-factor intervention program
Quantifying the expected vs potential impact of a risk-factor intervention program. M Bulterys, H Morgenstern, and D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.5.867 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Quality of reviews in epidemiology
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the quality of recent reviews in epidemiology. METHODS: All 1995 issues of 7 widely read epidemiology journals were searched to identify reviews. RESULTS: Twenty-nine reviews were identified. Methodology was not specified or incomplete for literature searches in 79% of reviews; the same was true for inclusion criteria in 83% and for combining studies in 62%. More than 60% of the reviews were not methodologically sy…
Preventing scientific misconduct
Preventing scientific misconduct. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.125 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Beyond black box epidemiology
Beyond black box epidemiology. D L WeedCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.12 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Cancer Knowledge and Misconceptions Among Immigrant Salvadorean Men in the Washington, D.C. Area
Towards a philosophy of public health
You can respond to this article at: service Email alerting top right corner of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article- sign up in the box at the
Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms
Ethics in epidemiology and public health has emerged from several sources: most obvious is the discipline of bioethics, with its theories, methods, case studies, and familiar textbooks. Bioethics has primarily been focused upon medical ethics and research ethics and only recently has turned its attention to public health. Another source of scholarship is philosophical ethics. Here the sourcebooks are the writings of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Rawls, …
Methods in epidemiology and public health: Does practice match theory
Epidemiology is widely perceived as a public health discipline within which methodology matters .1 Methods dominate educational curriculums and influential textbooks.2 3Epidemiological societies regularly feature methods sessions at their national and international meetings and, at least informally, the discipline recognises the methodologists who study the methods and the practitioners who use them. It follows that epidemiological methods, wheth…
Is the precautionary principle a principle
The article considers whether the precautionary principle is a principle. Truth in labeling is not the only motive behind asking this question. There is a tradition of principle-based decision making in the public health professions. Principles of ethics matter to epidemiologists and others who study disease causation in populations and recommend, even advocate for, disease prevention and health promotion interventions. Public health professional…
Science, ethics, and professional public health practice
Competing values and obligations At the core of professional public health practice is a promise to help society by preventing disease and promoting health. Public health is a calling, as much an art as it is steeped in scientific theory, method, and evidence. We, the public health professionals, learn theory and practice in the classroom and hone them in experience. We define core values and embrace integrity, prudence, honesty, and trust. We de…
Conflicts of interest: How could disclosure of interests work better in medicine, epidemiology and public health
Suspend for a moment the need to align “conflicts of interest” with matters financial. Resist the temptation to pigeonhole the paired concepts of conflicts and interests with ethically questionable actions or, for that matter, perceptions of wrongdoing. Instead, focus with me on the conflicts epidemiologists face as the discipline and its professional practitioners mature. Focus on the conflicts that are of interest to epidemiologists. Three come…
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