Should the mission of epidemiology include the eradication of poverty?

Abstract

Physicists seem to have escaped the old criticism that their work is impractical. Perhaps the criticism was blunted by technological innovations that rest on physical theory. Nevertheless, even astrophysicists, whose work seldom induces engineering breakthroughs, can now pursue knowledge for its own sake without fear of being badgered about the practical relevance of their work. What physicists have gained, however, epidemiologists seem to have lost. Accusations have been mounting that epidemiologists have abandoned their public-health mission of being “physician-scientist” to society1 in favour of studying the scientific arcana of disease causation.

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