Epidemiology and the Nobel prize

摘要

Alfredo Morabia's insightful commentary on epidemiologists and the Nobel prize reaches a sensitive nerve, going deeper than just the prize question.rnEvery time a Nobel winner is chosen, there are a number of factors at play: the rule that no more than three living winners can be designated for a discovery; the latitude in defining a discovery, as exemplified in 2008 by the choice of putting together scientists who have identified the viral causes of two (mainly) sexually transmitted but very different diseases, AIDS and cervical cancer; less palpable and indirect academic and political influences and, inevitably, the subjectivity of the jury.